Characterizing and estimating noise in InSAR and InSAR time series with MODIS

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4121-4132

  Barnhart, William D ^a,b   Lohman, Rowena B ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

error analysis; InSAR time series; MODIS

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; MODIS; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; SPATIALLY CORRELATED NOISE; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES TECHNIQUES; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MODIS; NOISE; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PRECISION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84889053754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ggge.20258     Document Type: Article

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