InSAR elevation bias caused by penetration into uniform volumes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2319-2324

  Dall, Jørgen ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Elevation bias; Interferometry; Penetration; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Volume scattering

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION BIAS; PHASE WRAPPING; POWER PENETRATION; VOLUME SCATTERING;

ICE; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; SAND; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 34347216648     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.896613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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