Quantization effects in TanDEM-X data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 583-597

  Martone, Michele ^a   Bräutigam, Benjamin ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Block adaptive quantization (BAQ); SAR interferometry (InSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X add on for Digital Elevation Measurement (TanDEM X) mission

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITES;

BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; BLOCK-ADAPTIVE QUANTIZATION (BAQ); DIGITAL ELEVATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HIGH PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE BISTATIC SAR; SPACEBORNE SAR MISSIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X;

EID: 84906319100     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2325976     Document Type: Article

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