SPEC method - A fine coregistration method for SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 28-37

  Natsuaki, Ryo ^a   Hirose, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Correlation; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); singular point (SP)

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; COREGISTRATION; CORRELATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SINGULAR POINTS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650910955     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2057435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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