Ocean wave imaging using an airborne single pass across-track interferometric SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-45

  Schulz Stellenfleth, Johannes ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER WAVES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM);

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0035115454     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.898663     Document Type: Article

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