Advanced high resolution SAR interferometry of urban areas with airborne millimetrewave radar

Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung, Geoinformation

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 603-617

  Schmitt, Michael ^a   Magnard, Christophe ^b   Stanko, Stephan ^c   Ackermann, Christian ^a   Stilla, Uwe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne; Millimetrewaves; Multi aspect; SAR Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888409159     PISSN: 14328364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1432-8364/2013/0199     Document Type: Article

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