Accuracy of differential shift estimation by correlation and split-bandwidth interferometry for wideband and Delta-k SAR systems

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-155

  Bamler, Richard ^a,b   Eineder, Michael ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bound (CRB); Delta k interferometry; Differential delay estimation; Image correlation; Speckle tracking; Split bandwidth interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image coregistration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECKLE;

CRAMÉR-RAO BOUND (CRB); DELTA-K INTERFEROMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL DELAY ESTIMATION; IMAGE CORRELATION; SPECKLE TRACKING; SPLIT-BANDWIDTH INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGE COREGISTRATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 18844378410     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.843203     Document Type: Article

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