Modeling and reduction of SAR interferometric phase noise in the wavelet domain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2553-2566

  López Martínez, Carlos ^a   Fàbregas, Xavier ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Phase noise modeling; Phase noise reduction; SAR interferometry; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; NOISE ABATEMENT; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVELET DOMAIN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036994742     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.806997     Document Type: Article

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