Simulated analysis and optimization of a three-antenna airborne InSAR system for topographic mapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 5 II, 1999, Pages 2518-2529

  Corsini, Giovanni ^a   Diani, Marco ^a   Lombardini, Fabrizio ^b   Pinelli, Gianpaolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IDS INGEGNERIA DEI SISTEMI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION ACCURACY; MULTIBASELINE RADIO INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE AMBIGUITY; PHASE UNWRAPPING; TERRAIN ELEVATION MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0033334887     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.789647     Document Type: Article

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