Characterization and quantification of data voids in the shuttle radar topography mission data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-181

  Hall, Ola ^a   Falorni, Giacomo ^b   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data voids; Digital elevation model (DEM); Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Topography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTERFEROMETRY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA VOIDS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); SHUTTLE RADAR MISSION (SRTM); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (SAR); TOPOGRAPHY;

SPACE SHUTTLES;

EID: 18844458092     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.842447     Document Type: Article

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