Current measurements in rivers by spaceborne along-track InSAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4019-4031

  Romeiser, Roland ^a,b   Runge, Hartmut ^c   Suchandt, Steffen ^c   Sprenger, Judith ^b   Weilbeer, Holger ^d   Sohrmann, Ariane ^d   Stammer, Detlef ^b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL WATERWAYS ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Along track interferometry (ATI); Current measurements; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); River runoff; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY (ATI); ALTIMETERS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (INSAR); SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM); SURFACE CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; TERRASAR-X;

INTERFEROMETRY; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS);

EID: 36348942494     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.904837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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