Quantification of temporal decorrelation effects at L-band for polarimetric SAR interferometry applications

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1351-1367

  Lee, Seung Kuk ^a,b   Kugler, Florian ^b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^b   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Height inversion; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol InSAR); temporal baseline; temporal decorrelation

Indexed keywords

CHANGES IN VOLUME; CRITICAL PARAMETER; HEIGHT INVERSION; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION; TEMPORAL BASELINE; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BASELINE SURVEY; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEIGHT; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84880263033     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2253448     Document Type: Article

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