Towards imaging geodesy - Achieving centimetre pixel localization accuracy with TerraSAR-X

Proceedings of the European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 222-225

  Eineder, Michael ^a   Minet, Christian ^a   Cong, Xiaoying ^b   Thomas Fritz, Christian ^a   Steigenberger, Peter ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTHQUAKES; ERROR COMPENSATION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS;

COMPENSATION METHOD; DISPLACEMENT MAPS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGE CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROPAGATION DELAYS; SATELLITE GEODESY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84873193683     PISSN: 21974403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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