A spatially adjusted elevation model in dronning maud land, antarctica, based on differential SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2501-2509

  Drews, Reinhard ^a   Rack, Wolfgang ^b   Wesche, Christine ^a   Helm, Veit ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Altimetry; Antarctica; Ice sheet elevation; SAR interferometry; SAR processing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; ANTARCTICA; ICE SHEET ELEVATION; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR PROCESSING;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLACIERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; ICE; ICE CONTROL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LANDING; PAPER SHEETING; PHASE STABILITY; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK MECHANICS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELEVATION; GPS; ICE SHEET; KINEMATICS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; QUEEN MAUD LAND;

EID: 67949103551     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2016081     Document Type: Article

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