Towards an urban roughness parameterisation using interferometric SAR data taking the Metropolitan Region of Hamburg as an example

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-37

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a   Langkamp, Thomas ^a   Ament, Felix ^a   Böhner, Jürgen ^a   Daneke, Chrstian ^a   DanekeGünzkofer, René ^b   Leitl, Bernd ^a   Ossenbrügge, Jürgen ^a   Ringeler, Andre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Intermap Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DERIVED FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL HEIGHT MODELS; DRAG EFFECTS; GEOMETRY PARAMETER; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MORPHOMETRIC METHOD; NEW APPROACHES; PARAMETERISATION; ROUGHNESS ELEMENTS; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SIDE-LOOKING; STATE OF THE ART; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN BOUNDARY LAYERS; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN SURFACES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOLOGY;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; METROPOLITAN AREA; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY]; HAMBURG [HAMBURG (STT)];

EID: 79954519424     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0496     Document Type: Article

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