Atmospheric phase screen compensation in ground-based sar with a multiple-regression model over mountainous regions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2436-2449

  Iglesias, Ruben ^a   Fabregas, Xavier ^a   Aguasca, Albert ^a   Mallorqui, Jordi J ^a   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a   Gili, Josep A ^a   Corominas, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmospheric phase screen (APS) compensation; differential synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry (DInSAR); ground based SAR (GB SAR); polarimetry; steep topography

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC ARTIFACTS; ATMOSPHERIC FLUCTUATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (DINSAR); GROUND-BASED SAR; GROUND-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MOUNTAINOUS ENVIRONMENT; PHASE SCREEN; STEEP TOPOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84896314927     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2261077     Document Type: Article

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