A multitemporal method for correction of tropospheric effects in differential SAR interferometry: Application to the gulf of corinth earthquake

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1605-1615

  Chaabane, Ferdaous ^a   Avallone, Antonio ^b   Tupin, Florence ^c,d   Briole, Pierre ^e,f   Maître, Henri ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^d INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (DinSAR); Ground deformation; Tropospheric effects

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CORRELATION METHODS; DEFORMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (DINSAR); GULF; INTERFEROGRAMS; TROPOSPHERIC EFFECTS;

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34249811540     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.894026     Document Type: Article

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