Interaction between permafrost and infrastructure along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway detected via jointly analysis of C- and L-band small baseline SAR interferometry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 532-540

  Chen, Fulong ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Li, Zhen ^b   Chen, Quan ^b   Zhou, Jianmin ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

Permafrost; Qinghai Tibet Railway; SAR interferometry; Small baseline; Surface motion

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENTS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY; MOTION ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING; RAILROADS; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRIC POINT TARGET ANALYSIS; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); QINGHAI TIBET RAILWAY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE-BASED SURVEILLANCE; SMALL BASELINES; SURFACE MOTIONS;

PERMAFROST;

CALIBRATION; DISPLACEMENT; EMBANKMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; LANDFORM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84861338302     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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