Three-dimensional imaging and scattering mechanism estimation over urban scenes using dual-baseline polarimetric InSAR observations at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 11 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4616-4629

  Sauer, Stefan ^a   Ferro Famil, Laurent ^b   Reigber, Andreas ^a   Pottier, Eric ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

3 D polarimetric SAR tomography; 3 D SAR urban remote sensing; Multibaseline (MB) polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (POL InSAR); multichannel SAR; polarimetric array signal processing techniques

Indexed keywords

3-D POLARIMETRIC SAR TOMOGRAPHY; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-BASELINE; MULTI-CHANNEL; URBAN REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDING; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REFLECTIVITY; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA;

DRESDEN; GERMANY; SAXONY;

EID: 80455174769     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2147321     Document Type: Article

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