Tropospheric phase delay in interferometric synthetic aperture radar estimated from meteorological model and multispectral imagery

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Puysségur, Béatrice ^a   Michel, Rémi ^a   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENVISAT-1; ESTIMATION METHOD; FILTER; INTERFEROMETRY; MERIS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PARAMETERIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 50849094513     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004352     Document Type: Article

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