Glacier surface velocity estimation using repeat TerraSAR-X images: Wavelet- vs. correlation-based image matching

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 49-62

  Schubert, Adrian ^a   Faes, Annina ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^b   Meier, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aletsch; Feature tracking; Glacier surface velocity; Image matching; Synthetic Aperture Radar; TerraSAR X; Wavelet decomposition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

ALETSCH; FEATURE-TRACKING; GLACIER SURFACE VELOCITY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHTS; IMAGE MATCHING ALGORITHM; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TERRASAR-X; WAVELET-BASED APPROACH;

ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIER; OPTIMIZATION; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRASAR-X; VELOCITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84878701500     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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