Rational function modeling for spaceborne SAR datasets

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-145

  Zhang, Lu ^a   He, Xueyan ^a   Balz, Timo ^a   Wei, Xiaohong ^a   Liao, Mingsheng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Range Doppler model; Rational function model; SAR

Indexed keywords

CONTROL POINT; DATA SETS; DOPPLER; GENERIC SENSOR MODELS; GEOMETRIC PROCESSING; KEY FACTORS; KEY TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL IMAGE; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RANGE-DOPPLER MODEL; RATIONAL FUNCTION; RATIONAL FUNCTION MODEL; RF MODELING; SAR; SAR SYSTEM; SPACEBORNE SAR; STUDY AREAS; TERRAIN CONDITIONS; TWO STAGE; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; SENSORS;

RATIONAL FUNCTIONS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DOPPLER RADAR; ELEVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

EID: 78650753058     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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