Nonlocal Adaptive Multilooking in SAR Multipass Differential Interferometry

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

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1727-1742

  Sica, Francescopaolo ^a   Reale, Diego ^b   Poggi, Giovanni ^a   Verdoliva, Luisa ^a   Fornaro, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential InSAR (DInSAR); nonlocal filtering; SAR interferometry (InSAR); speckle removal; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR;

D-INSAR; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC PRODUCTS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NONLOCAL FILTERING; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPECKLE REMOVAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84930641027     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2421554     Document Type: Article

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