Automated georeferencing and orthorectification of amazon basin-wide SAR mosaics using SRTM DEM data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1929-1940

  Sheng, Yongwei ^a   Alsdorf, Douglas E ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models (DEMs); Orthorectification; Piecewise image rectification; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mosaics; Topographic distortions

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEMS); ORTHORECTIFICATION; PIECEWISE IMAGE RECTIFICATION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) MOSAICS; TOPOGRAPHIC DISTORTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 24944514295     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.852160     Document Type: Article

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