Interferometric SAR phase filtering in the wavelet domain using simultaneous detection and estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1396-1416

  Bian, Yong ^a   Mercer, Bryan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Intermap Technologies Corp   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interferometric SAR (InSAR); phase filtering; simultaneous detection and estimation; undecimated wavelet; wavelet domain; wavelet packet

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; PHASE FILTERING; SIMULTANEOUS DETECTION AND ESTIMATION; UNDECIMATED WAVELET; WAVELET DOMAIN; WAVELET PACKET;

ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RISK PERCEPTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DETECTORS;

FILTER; NOISE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET;

EID: 79953189357     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2076286     Document Type: Article

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