A particle filter approach for InSAR phase filtering and unwrapping

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1197-1211

  Martinez Espla, Juan J ^a   Martinez Marin, Tomás ^a   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence (AI); Extended Kalman filter (EKF); Grid filter; Particle filter (PF); Path following; Phase unwrapping (PU); SAR interferometry; State space

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETERS; POSITION CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

GRID FILTER; PARTICLE FILTER (PF); PATH FOLLOWING; PHASE UNWRAPPING (PU); SAR INTERFEROMETRY; STATE SPACE;

NONLINEAR FILTERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FILTER; INTERFEROMETRY; KALMAN FILTER; NOISE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63149100909     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008095     Document Type: Article

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