Current measurements by SAR along-track interferometry from a Space Shuttle

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2315-2323

  Romeiser, Roland ^a,b   Breit, Heiko ^a,c   Eineder, Michael ^a,c   Runge, Hartmut ^a,c,g   Flament, Pierre ^a,d   De Jong, Karin ^e   Vogelzang, Jur ^f  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Rijksinstituut voor Kust en Zee   (Netherlands)

^f ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^g TerraSAR X Traffic Monitoring Project

Author keywords

Current measurements; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM);

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE SHUTTLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 27744547368     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.856116     Document Type: Article

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