DEM generation by means of ERS tandem data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1905-1912

  Rufino, Giancarlo ^a   Moccia, Antonio ^a   Esposito, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ers l ers 2 tandem; Orbital data; Synthetic aperture radar (sar) interferometry; Terrain mapping

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); GROUND CONTROL POINTS (GCP); ORBITAL DATA; TERRAIN MAPPING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032208614     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.729362     Document Type: Article

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