Performance analysis of the TerraSAR-X Traffic monitoring concept

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 225-242

  Meyer, Franz ^b   Hinz, Stefan ^a   Laika, Andreas ^a   Weihing, Diana ^a   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Detection; GMTI; Monitoring; Performance; Radar; Remote Sensing; SAR interferometer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTION; GMTI; SAR INTERFEROMETERS; TRAFFIC MONITORING SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33751415590     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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