On the importance of path for phase unwrapping in synthetic aperture radar interferometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3205-3220

  Osmanoglu, Batuhan ^a   Dixon, Timothy H ^a,b   Wdowinski, Shimon ^a   Cabral Cano, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR;

FISHER INFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASE DERIVATIVES; PHASE OBSERVATIONS; SECOND DERIVATIVES; SELECTION CRITERIA; SURFACE DEFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79959969123     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.003205     Document Type: Article

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