Automatic extraction of traffic flows using TerraSAR-X along-track interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 807-819

  Suchandt, Steffen ^a   Runge, Hartmut ^a   Breit, Helko ^a   Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^a   Kotenkov, Alexander ^a   Balss, Ulrich ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Along track interferometry (ATI); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X; Traffic measurement

Indexed keywords

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; ALONG-TRACK INTERFEROMETRY (ATI); APRIORI; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; DISPLACED PHASE CENTERS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FLIGHT DIRECTION; GROUND AREA; GROUND OBJECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; NEAR-REAL-TIME PROCESSING; RECEIVING APERTURE; REFERENCE DATA; ROAD NETWORK; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X; TIME LAG; TRAFFIC DETECTION; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC INFORMATION; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS;

FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; JAMMING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; ROAD TRANSPORT; SATELLITE DATA; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 76249096728     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037919     Document Type: Article

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