Retrieval of phase history parameters from distributed scatterers in urban areas using very high resolution SAR data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue , 2012, Pages 89-99

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

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Covariance matrix; Distributed scatterer; Phase history; PSI; SAR; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SCATTERER; PHASE HISTORY; PSI; SAR; TERRASAR-X;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA HANDLING; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PIXEL; SCATTERING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84867885821     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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