PSI deformation map retrieval by means of temporal sublook coherence on reduced sets of SAR images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 530-563

  Iglesias, Rubén ^a   Mallorqui, Jordi J ^a   Monells, Dani ^a   López Martínez, Carlos ^a   Fabregas, Xavier ^a   Aguasca, Albert ^a   Gili, Josep A ^a   Corominas, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR); Ground based SAR (GB SAR); Persistent scatterer; Persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI); Spotlight; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Temporal sublook coherence (TSC)

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; PIXELS; RADAR; STABILITY CRITERIA;

DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY; GROUND-BASED SAR; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; SPOTLIGHT; TEMPORAL SUBLOOK COHERENCE (TSC);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84920807217     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70100530     Document Type: Article

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