Intermittent Small Baseline Subset (ISBAS) monitoring of land covers unfavourable for conventional C-band InSAR: Proof-of-concept for peatland environments in North Wales, UK

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9243, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cigna, Francesca ^a   Sowter, Andrew ^b   Jordan, Colm J ^a   Rawlins, Barry G ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image processing; InSAR; Intermittent coherence; ISBAS; Land cover; Peatlands; SBAS

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PIXELS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

INSAR; ISBAS; LAND COVER; PEAT LAND; SBAS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84922662467     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2067604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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