Statistical comparison of InSAR tropospheric correction techniques

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 40-47

  Bekaert, D P S ^a   Walters, R J ^a   Wright, T J ^a   Hooper, A J ^a   Parker, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Corrections; InSAR; Phase based; Spectrometers; State of the art; TRAIN; Tropospheric noise; Weather models

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BALLOONS; DEFORMATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INTERFEROMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

CORRECTIONS; INSAR; PHASE BASED; STATE OF THE ART; TRAIN; TROPOSPHERIC NOISE; WEATHER MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; GNSS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODIS; POWER LAW; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

CANARY ISLANDS; FEDERAL DISTRICT [MEXICO]; HIERRO; ITALY; MEXICO CITY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SPAIN;

EID: 84941286537     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.035     Document Type: Article

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