A new strategy to estimate local fringe frequencies for InSAR phase noise reduction

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 771-775

  Suo, Zhiyong ^a   Li, Zhenfang ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fringe frequency estimation; interferometry; phase noise filtering; phase unwrapping; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FIRST-ORDER MODELS; FRINGE FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INSAR DATA; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MEAN FILTER; NEW APPROACHES; NEW STRATEGY; NOISE REDUCTIONS; PHASE IMAGE; PHASE NOISE FILTERING; PHASE UNWRAPPING; STATISTICAL THRESHOLD;

ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHASE NOISE; RADAR; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 77957998289     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2047935     Document Type: Article

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