High-resolution SAR interferometry: Estimation of local frequencies in the context of alpine glaciers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1079-1090

  Vasile, Gabriel ^a,b,c,d   Trouvé, Emmanuel ^a,c,e   Petillot, Ivan ^e   Bolon, Philippe ^a,e   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^f   Gay, Michel ^c   Chanussot, Jocelyn ^a,c   Landes, Tania ^g   Grussenmeyer, Pierre ^g   Buzuloiu, Vasile ^a,d   Hajnsek, Irena ^h   Andres, Christian ^h   Keller, Martin ^h   Horn, Ralf ^h  

^a IEEE

^b Université de Savoie   (France)

^c GIPSA LAB   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^f TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^g INSA DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive neighborhood; Experimental synthetic aperture radar (E SAR); Glacier monitoring; Local frequencies; SAR interferometry (InSAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; INTERFEROMETRY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ADAPTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD; GLACIER MONITORING; LOCAL FREQUENCIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 41549103051     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.912713     Document Type: Article

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