A new framework for SAR multitemporal data RGB representation: Rationale and products

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 117-133

  Amitrano, Donato ^a   Di Martino, Gerardo ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Data mining; Multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR); RGB composition

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA FUSION; DATA MINING;

ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; CROSS CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL DATA; MULTITEMPORAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TEMPERATE REGIONS; VARIABLE AMPLITUDES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CALIBRATION; INTERFEROMETER; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906784452     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2318997     Document Type: Article

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