ENVISAT ASAR data reduction: impact on SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 589602-

  McLeod, Lan H ^a   Gumming, Lan G ^a   Seymour, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Block adaptive quantization; Data compression; Satellite interferometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747907468     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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