Reducing ionospheric effects in InSAR data using accurate coregistration

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-70

  Chen, Albert C ^a   Zebker, Howard A ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ionosphere; Microwave propagation; Radar interferometry; Radar remote sensing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE CO-REGISTRATION; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PIXELS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

AZIMUTH; CANOPY; DATA SET; ELECTRON; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; IONOSPHERE; PIXEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84890427652     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2236098     Document Type: Article

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