Superresolution differential tomography: Experiments on identification of multiple scatterers in spaceborne SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1117-1129

  Lombardini, Fabrizio ^a   Pardini, Matteo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection; differential interferometry; multidimensional signal processing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomography

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION; COHERENT PROCESSING; DEFORMATION VELOCITY; DIFFERENT HEIGHTS; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHY; GROUND STRUCTURE; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE-BORNE SAR; SPACEBORNE DATA; SUPER RESOLUTION; URBAN AREAS;

ERROR DETECTION; EXPERIMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERALIST; HEIGHT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; MONITORING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; VELOCITY;

EID: 84859756388     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2164925     Document Type: Article

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