Improved ground subsidence monitoring using small baseline SAR interferograms and a weighted least squares inversion algorithm

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-441

  Akbari, Vahid ^a   Motagh, Mahdi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System (GPS); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); time series; weighted least squares (WLS) adjustment

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROGRAMS; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; ENVISAT SATELLITE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS); IMAGE MODES; IMAGE PAIRS; IMPROVED GROUND; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; LAND SURFACE; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAR-INTERFEROMETRY; SMALL BASELINES; SPATIAL DECORRELATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); TIME INTERVAL; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 84858076301     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2170952     Document Type: Article

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