Persistent scatterers at building facades - Evaluation of appearance and localization accuracy

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 100, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-105

  Gernhardt, Stefan ^a   Auer, Stefan ^a   Eder, Konrad ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Point cloud; SAR; Simulation; Understanding; Urban

Indexed keywords

FACADES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY;

ACCURACY; POINT CLOUD; SAR; SIMULATION; UNDERSTANDING; URBAN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMPLITUDE; GEOMETRY; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84920870911     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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