MST-based stepwise connection strategies for multipass radar data, with application to coregistration and equalization

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2029-2040

  Refice, Alberto ^a   Bovenga, Fabio ^b   Nutricato, Raffaele ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data processing; Image registration; Minimum spanning tree (MST); Multipass synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Radar imaging; Radiometric calibration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE REGISTRATION; MINIMUM SPANNING TREE (MST); MULTIPASS SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

RADAR;

EID: 33746886267     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872907     Document Type: Article

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