Satellite SAR geocoding with refined RPC model

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 69, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-49

  Zhang, Lu ^a   Balz, Timo ^a   Liao, Mingsheng ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Image matching; Range Doppler; Rational Polynomial Camera; SAR geocoding; SAR simulation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; BEST CHOICE; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; DATA SETS; DEM DATUM; ERROR SOURCES; GEO CODING; GEOLOCATIONS; GEOMETRIC PROCESSING; LOCATION ACCURACY; MODEL REFINEMENT; PROPAGATION DELAYS; R-D MODEL; RANGE-DOPPLER; RATIONAL POLYNOMIAL; SAR IMAGES; SAR SIMULATION; SATELLITE SAR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIMING ERRORS;

CAMERAS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE MATCHING; REFINING; SATELLITES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84862810107     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.02.004     Document Type: Article

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