Accurate estimation of correlation in InSAR observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 124-127

  Zebker, Howard A ^a   Chen, Katherine ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Cryosphere; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Interferometry; Radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING; SPACECRAFT;

CYROSPHERE; INTERFEROMETER FRINGES; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC SPERTURE RADAR (INSAR); RADAR IMAGE PIXELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 18844455549     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.842375     Document Type: Article

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