Cancellation of scattering mechanisms in PolInSAR: Application to underlying topography estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 953-965

  Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polarimetric SAR interferometry; SAR interferometry (InSAR); SAR polarimetry; underlying topography

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; COMPLEX CORRELATION; COMPLEX CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; FORESTED AREA; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; PHASE CONTRIBUTION; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIZATION STATE; POLINSAR; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SPECKLE FILTERING; TOPOGRAPHY ESTIMATION; VOLUME SCATTERING;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

SCATTERING;

CORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; HEIGHT; IMAGE PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84872933709     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2205157     Document Type: Article

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