Repeat-pass SAR interferometry with partially coherent targets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 271-280

  Perissin, Daniele ^a   Wang, Teng ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation monitoring; digital elevation models (DEMs); synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR); time series analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MONITORING; DEFORMATION TREND; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNATURES; ENVISAT SATELLITE; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING; EXTRACTING INFORMATION; LOW RESOLUTION; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PERMANENT SCATTERERS; RESTRICTIVE CONDITIONS; SAR IMAGES; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL DENSITIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (INSAR); TEST SITE; URBAN SITE;

COHERENT SCATTERING; DEFORMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVISAT-1; HEIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; RESOLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855466096     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2160644     Document Type: Article

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