Precise three-dimensional stereo localization of corner reflectors and persistent scatterers with TerraSAR-X

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1782-1802

  Gisinger, Christoph ^a   Balss, Ulrich ^b   Pail, Roland ^a   Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b   Montazeri, Sina ^b,c   Gernhardt, Stefan ^a   Eineder, Michael ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geodesy; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; stereo image processing; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; CALIBRATION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMETRY; OBSERVATORIES; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GEODYNAMIC SIGNALS; GEOMETRICAL CALIBRATIONS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAMES; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; STEREO LOCALIZATION; TARGET LOCALIZATION;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

GEODESY; GEODYNAMICS; OBSERVATORY; RADARSAT; SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM; SENSOR; STEREO IMAGE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84908017875     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2348859     Document Type: Article

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