First analysis of TerraSAR-X along-track InSAR-derived current fields

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 820-829

  Romeiser, Roland ^a   Suchandt, Steffen ^b   Runge, Hartmut ^b   Steinbrecher, Ulrich ^b   Grünler, Steffen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current measurement; Interferometry; Radar data processing; Radar imaging; Radar signal analysis; Radar velocity measurement; Rivers; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEASUREMENT; CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; RADAR SIGNAL ANALYSIS; RADAR VELOCITIES;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; RIVERS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SHIP CONVERSION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ELBE RIVER;

EID: 76349094689     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030885     Document Type: Article

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