Burst-mode and scanSAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1917-1934

  Holzner, Jürgen ^a   Bamler, Richard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burst mode; ENVISAT; Pack and go algorithm; RADARSAT; ScanSAR; SRTM; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; SCANNING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BURST MODE TECHNIQUE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036763343     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803848     Document Type: Article

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