Wavelet-based compressed sensing for SAR tomography of forested areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 5283-5295

  Aguilera, Esteban ^a   Nannini, Matteo ^a   Reigber, Andreas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compressed sensing (CS); Forest structure; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE SENSING; FOREST STRUCTURE; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; WAVELETS;

FORESTRY; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; FOREST COVER; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 84889675300     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2231081     Document Type: Article

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