Filtering of interferometric SAR phase images as a fuzzy matching-pursuit blind estimation

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3220-3230

  Aiazzi, Bruno ^a   Baronti, Stefano ^a   Bianchini, Massimo ^b   Mori, Alessandro ^b   Alparone, Luciano ^b  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Blind estimation; Coherence; Fuzzy logic; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar; Phase noise filtering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; FUZZY SETS; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BLIND ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASE NOISE FILTERING; SPATIAL FILTERING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 33751272699     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: 16870433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.3220     Document Type: Article

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