3-D time-domain SAR imaging of a forest using airborne multibaseline data at L-and P-bands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3660-3664

  Frey, Othmar ^a,b   Meier, Erich ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; Beamforming; Capon beamformer; Forestry; Interferometry; L band; Multibaseline; Multiple signal classification (MUSIC); P band; Polarimetry; SAR processing; SAR tomography; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Three dimensional (3 D) imaging; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; CAPON BEAMFORMER; L-BAND; MULTI-BASELINE; MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION; P-BAND; SAR PROCESSING;

AGRICULTURE; BEAMFORMING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AZIMUTH; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; IMAGING METHOD; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRY; SATELLITES; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 80053575857     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2128875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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