Definition of icesat selection criteria for their use as height references for tandem-x

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2750-2757

  Hueso González, Jaime ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a   Scheiber, Rolf ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; Digital elevation model; Experimental airborne radar system; ICESat; Laser DEM; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (InSAR); TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADAR SYSTEMS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL AIRBORNE RADAR SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) INTERFEROMETRY (INSAR); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; TANDEM-X;

CALIBRATION; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SURVEYING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CALIBRATION; DENSITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEIGHT; ICESAT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; TERRAIN;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; OBERPFAFFENHOFEN;

EID: 77952584091     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2041355     Document Type: Article

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