Are numerical weather model outputs helpful to reduce tropospheric delay signals in InSAR data?

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 267-277

  Kinoshita, Youhei ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a   Hobiger, Thomas ^b   Ichikawa, Ryuichi ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALOS; InSAR; Numerical weather model; Tropospheric delay

Indexed keywords

ALOS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

EID: 84874112507     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-012-0596-x     Document Type: Article

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