Phase unwrapping for very large interferometric data sets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4048-4061

  Zhang, Kui ^a   Ge, Linlin ^a   Hu, Zhe ^a   Ng, Alex Hay Man ^a   Li, Xiaojing ^a   Rizos, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Interferometry; network flow; phase unwrapping; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); two stage optimization (TSO)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; COMPUTING RESOURCE; GLOBALITY; INPUT DATAS; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; LARGE DATASETS; MINIMUM COST FLOWS; NETWORK FLOW; NETWORK OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM; PHASE UNWRAPPING; RAPID ADVANCEMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; TWO STAGE; TWO STAGE OPTIMIZATIONS;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COST ACCOUNTING; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; HARDWARE; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTIMIZATION; PIXEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80053566892     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2130530     Document Type: Article

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