Application of RPC Model in Orthorectification of Spaceborne SAR Imagery

Photogrammetric Record

Volumn 27, Issue 137, 2012, Pages 94-110

  Zhang, Guo ^a   Qiang, Qiang ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Zhu, Yanmin ^b   Gu, Huan ^c   Zhu, Xiaoyong ^d  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Academy of Surveying and Mapping   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping   (China)

Author keywords

Image simulation; Optimisation model; Orthorectification; RPC; SAR

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SIMULATIONS; OPTIMISATION MODELS; ORTHORECTIFICATION; RPC; SAR;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COSMO-SKYMED; ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863338526     PISSN: 0031868X     EISSN: 14779730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9730.2011.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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