Fusing interferometric radar and laser altimeter data to estimate surface topography and vegetation heights

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2470-2482

  Clint Slatton, K ^a,b   Crawford, Melba M ^a,b   Evans, Brian L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Interferometry; Inverse problems; Laser altimetry; Multiscale estimation; Scattering models; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; MAPPING TOPOGRAPHY; MULTISCALE ESTIMATION;

INTERFEROMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; KALMAN FILTERING; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0035509510     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.964984     Document Type: Article

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