An innovative region growing algorithm based on Minimum Cost Flow approach for Phase Unwrapping of full-resolution differential interferograms

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5582-5585

  Ojha, C ^a,b   Manunta, M ^a   Pepe, A ^a   Paglia, L ^a   Lanari, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation time series; Extended Minimum Cost Flow; Phase unwrapping; Region growing

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; DEFORMATION TIME-SERIES; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROGRAMS; DIFFERENTIAL TECHNIQUE; INTERFEROGRAMS; MINIMUM COST FLOWS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PHASE UNWRAPPING PROCESS; REGION GROWING; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; SAR IMAGES; SEED POINT;

ALGORITHMS; COST ACCOUNTING; GEOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84873200638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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