Three-dimensional phase unwrapping for satellite radar interferometry, I: DEM generation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1059-1075

  Osmanoglu, Batuhan ^a   Dixon, Timothy H ^b   Wdowinski, Shimon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Marine Geology and Geophysics RSMASUniversity of Miami Key Biscayne   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; kalman filters; radar interferometry; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COHERENT RADAR SIGNAL; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REDUCING NOISE; SATELLITE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; INTERFEROMETRY; KALMAN FILTERS; PHASE MEASUREMENT; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; KALMAN FILTER; NOISE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; TIME SERIES; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84891024365     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2247043     Document Type: Article

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