Glacier motion estimation using SAR offset-tracking procedures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2384-2391

  Strozzi, Tazio ^a,b   Luckman, Adrian ^a   Murray, Tavi ^c   Wegmüller, Urs ^b   Werner, Charles L ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glacier motion estimation; Offset tracking SAR; SAR interferometry; Surge type glacier

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERPOLATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OFFSET TECHNIQUES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036875613     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.805079     Document Type: Article

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