Linear and adaptive spaceborne three-dimensional SAR tomography: A comparison on real data

IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 424-436

  Lombardini, F ^a   Pardini, M ^a   Fornaro, G ^b   Serafino, F ^b   Verrazzani, L ^a   Costantini, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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

^c TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING; ERS SATELLITES; MULTI-BASELINE; NEW OPTIONS; SAR DATA; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPACE-BORNE; TIME SPAN;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 69249091015     PISSN: 17518784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2008.0171     Document Type: Article

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