Rapid damage assessment by means of multi-temporal SAR-A comprehensive review and outlook to Sentinel-1

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4870-4906

  Plank, Simon ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Damage assessment; Disaster; Earthquake; InSAR; Intensity correlation; Multi temporal SAR; SAR interferometry; Sentinel 1; Tropical storm

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DAMAGE DETECTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS;

DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; INSAR; INTENSITY CORRELATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL SAR; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SENTINEL-1; TROPICAL STORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84903517544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6064870     Document Type: Review

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