An efficient tomographic inversion approach for urban mapping using meter resolution sar image stacks

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1250-1254

  Wang, Yuanyuan ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

SAR tomography (TomoSAR); SL1MMER; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X; urban mapping

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; SATELLITES; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHTS; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); SL1MMER; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; URBAN MAPPING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84897023995     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2290833     Document Type: Article

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