Quality assessment of surface current fields from terraSAR-X and TanDEM-X along-track interferometry and doppler centroid analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2759-2772

  Romeiser, Roland ^a   Runge, Hartmut ^b   Suchandt, Steffen ^b   Kahle, Ralph ^b   Rossi, Cristian ^c   Bell, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interferometry; radar velocity measurement; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DOPPLER EFFECT; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY; COMPUTATION SYSTEMS; EFFECTIVE RESOLUTIONS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RADAR VELOCITIES; REFERENCE CURRENTS; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTENNA; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; INTERFEROMETRY; NOISE; RADAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X;

PENTLAND FIRTH; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84896318040     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2265659     Document Type: Article

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