Influence of atmospheric path delay on the absolute geolocation accuracy of TerraSAR-X high-resolution products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 751-758

  Schubert, Adrian ^a   Jehle, Michael ^a   Small, David ^a   Meier, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric path delay; Synthetic aperture radar geometry; TerraSAR X (TSX)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAY; CORNER REFLECTOR; CR IMAGES; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOMETRIC VALIDATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE COORDINATES; IMAGE POSITION; LOW-ALTITUDE; PATH DELAY; SLANT-RANGE COMPLEXES; SMALL VARIATIONS; STRIPMAP; SWITZERLAND; TERRASAR-X; VALLEY SITES;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; RADAR; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 76349120388     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2036252     Document Type: Article

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