Accounting for atmospheric delays in InSAR data in a search for long-wavelength deformation in South America

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3856-3867

  Fournier, Thomas ^a,b   Pritchard, Matthew E ^a   Finnegan, Noah ^c  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Radar imaging; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DELAY; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PATH DELAY; ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; DEFORMATION MODELS; EARTH'S SURFACE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INSAR DATA; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LARGE-SIGNALS; LONG WAVELENGTH; NAZCA PLATE; NORTHERN CHILE; PHASE VARIANCE; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RESIDUAL SIGNALS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE TRACKS; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; WEATHER MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TECTONICS;

RADAR IMAGING;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; DEFORMATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GPS; GROUND MOTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRY; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBDUCTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELENGTH;

CHILE;

EID: 80053571941     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2139217     Document Type: Article

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