X-band airborne differential interferometry: Results of the OrbiSAR campaign over the Perugia Area

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 489-503

  Perna, Stefano ^a,b   Wimmer, Christian ^c   Moreira, João ^a,d   Fornaro, Gianfranco ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c Wimmer Consulting   (Germany)

^d Orbisat Remote Sensing   (Brazil)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne differential SAR interferometry; Airborne repeat pass SAR interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE; GROUND DEFORMATION; INTERFEROGRAMS; SYSTEM DETECTION;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 38549088460     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.908871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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