On the use of the WRF model to mitigate tropospheric phase delay effects in SAR interferograms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4970-4976

  Nico, Giovanni ^a   Tomé, Ricardo ^b,c   Catalao, João ^b   Miranda, Pedro M A ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

SAR interferometry (InSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tropospheric delay; Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION TIME; ATMOSPHERIC ARTIFACTS; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; INTERFEROGRAMS; PHASE DELAY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF MODEL;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; RESEARCH; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

EID: 82155185258     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2157511     Document Type: Article

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