On the nature of noise in 2-D phase unwrapping

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2958, Issue , 1996, Pages 216-225

  Bamler, Richard ^a   Davidson, Gordon W ^a   Adam, Nico ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; ERRORS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GRADIENT ESTIMATES; INTERFEROGRAMS; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; LINEAR ESTIMATORS; LINEAR METHODS; PHASE DIFFERENCES; PHASE GRADIENTS; PHASE SLOPES; PHASE UNWRAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 3643086367     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.262705     Document Type: Conference Paper

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