Bayesian approaches to phase unwrapping: Theoretical study

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2545-2556

  Nico, Giovanni ^a,b   Palubinskas, Gintautas ^a,b   Datcu, Mihai ^a,b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Inference; Interferometric phase; Phase unwrapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BAYESIAN MODELING; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0034259073     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.863057     Document Type: Article

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