Permanent scatterers analysis for atmospheric correction in ground-based SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1459-1470

  Noferini, Linhsia ^a   Pieraccini, Massimiliano ^a   Mecatti, Daniele ^a   Luzi, Guido ^a   Atzeni, Carlo ^a   Tamburini, Andrea ^b   Broccolato, Massimo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CESI   (Italy)

^c Direzione Prevenzione Dei Rischi Idrogeologici ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric effect; Ground based synthetic aperture radar (GB SAR) interferometry; Landslide monitoring; Permanent scatterer (PS); Radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; RADAR; SCATTERING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT; GROUND BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (GB-SAR); INCLINOMETERS; LANDSLIDE MONITORING; PERMANENT SCATTERER (PS);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 23844470195     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.848707     Document Type: Article

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