Covariance estimation for dInSAR surface deformation measurements in the presence of anisotropic atmospheric noise

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2057-2065

  Knospe, Steffen H G ^a,b   Jónsson, Sigurjón ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Covariance analysis; Covariance functions; Error analysis; Geophysical inverse problems; Geostatistics; Remote Sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC DATA; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC NOISE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ESTIMATION; COVARIANCE FUNCTION; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; D-INSAR; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; GEO-STATISTICS; GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE PROBLEMS; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; GEOPHYSICAL PROCESS; HIGH QUALITY; INTERFEROGRAMS; PHASE COMPONENT; PHASE DELAY; RANDOM FUNCTIONS; SATELLITE SENSORS; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SIMULATED DATA; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DOMAINS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; SURFACE DEFORMATION; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; VALIDATION RESULTS; VARIOGRAM MODELS;

ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERICS; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOPHYSICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANISOTROPY; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOISE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 78649743686     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2033937     Document Type: Article

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