Demonstration of super-resolution for tomographic SAR imaging in urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3150-3157

  Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compressive sensing; SL1MMER; sparse reconstruction; super resolution; synthetic aperture radar; TerraSAR X; tomographic SAR inversion

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE SENSING; SL1MMER; SPARSE RECONSTRUCTION; SUPER RESOLUTION; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHIC;

ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TALL BUILDINGS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SCATTERING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRA (SATELLITE); TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84864289137     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2177843     Document Type: Article

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