Linear signatures in Urban SAR images-partly misinterpreted?

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1762-1766

  Auer, Stefan ^a   Gernhardt, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI); signal reflection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulation; TerraSAR X; urban

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACADES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); SIGNAL REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) SIMULATIONS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84901359184     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2308353     Document Type: Article

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