SAR monitoring of progressive and seasonal ground deformation using the permanent scatterers technique

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1685-1701

  Colesanti, Carlo ^a   Ferretti, Alessandro ^a,b   Novali, Fabrizio ^b   Prati, Claudio ^a   Rocca, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Tele Rilevamento Europa   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Ground deformation monitoring; Permanent scatters

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; SCATTERING;

SEASONAL GROUND DEFORMATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0041323216     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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