The TanDEM-X DEM Mosaicking: Fusion of Multiple Acquisitions Using InSAR Quality Parameters

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1047-1057

  Gruber, Astrid ^a   Wessel, Birgit ^a   Martone, Michele ^a   Roth, Achim ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models (DEMs); image fusion; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); mosaicking; TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; ORBITS; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; PHASE UNWRAPPING METHODS; QUALITY PARAMETERS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X;

EID: 84929591306     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2421879     Document Type: Article

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