Coherent shift estimation for stacks of SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1095-1099

  De Zan, Francesco ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariance matrices; delay estimation; maximum likelihood estimation; SAR interferometry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRICES; DELAY ESTIMATION; DISPLACEMENT ESTIMATION; FISHER INFORMATION; IMAGE PAIRS; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; PHASE ESTIMATION; SAR IMAGES; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPECKLE TRACKING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; THEORETICAL BOUNDS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80255123707     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2157079     Document Type: Article

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