Directionally adaptive filter for synthetic aperture radar interferometric phase images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 552-559

  Fu, Sihua ^a   Long, Xuejun ^a   Yang, Xia ^a   Yu, Qifeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fringe density; fringe direction; interferometry; phase filtering; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FRINGE DENSITY; FRINGE DIRECTION; INTERFEROGRAMS; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASE FILTERING; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION;

ADAPTIVE FILTERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; FILTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84871820629     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2202911     Document Type: Article

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