NL-InSAR: Nonlocal interferogram estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1441-1452

  Deledalle, Charles Alban ^a   Denis, Loïc ^b   Tupin, Florence ^a  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE ASTROPHYSIQUE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Estimation; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); nonlocal means

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; COHERENCE IMAGES; CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; COREGISTERED; DATA-DRIVEN; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; HERMITIANS; IMAGE PATCHES; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; JOINT ESTIMATION; LOCAL HETEROGENEITY; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL MEANS; RESOLUTION LOSS; SCENE INTERPRETATION; SIMILARITY CRITERIA; SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX SAR IMAGES; WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PIXELS; RADAR; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; INTERFEROMETER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79953218694     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2076376     Document Type: Article

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