Evaluating sub-pixel offset techniques as an alternative to D-InSAR for monitoring episodic landslide movements in vegetated terrain

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 147, Issue , 2014, Pages 133-144

  Singleton, A ^a   Li, Z ^a,b   Hoey, T ^a   Muller, J P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corner reflectors (CR); Differential SAR interferometry (D InSAR); Envisat; SAR sub pixel offsets; Slow moving landslides; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); TerraSAR X Spotlight; TerraSAR X Stripmap; Three Gorges region (China); Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

LANDSLIDES; MOTION COMPENSATION; REFLECTION; SATELLITES;

CORNER REFLECTOR; D-INSAR; ENVISAT; STRIPMAP; SUB PIXELS; TERRASAR-X; THREE GORGES REGION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENVISAT-1; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GROUND MOTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LANDSLIDE; PIXEL; SLOPE FAILURE; SPOT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 84897075140     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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