First demonstration of airborne SAR tomography using multibaseline L-band data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2142-2152

  Reigber, Andreas ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

MULTIBASELINE IMAGING GEOMETRY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034269409     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868873     Document Type: Article

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