Topographic SAR interferometry formulation for high-precision DEM generation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2415-2426

  Abdelfattah, Riadh ^a,b   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Interferogram simulator; Mapping relief; Orbital parameters; Phase to height conversion; SAR interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036875167     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.805071     Document Type: Article

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