Geodetic SAR Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 18-35

  Zhu, Xiao Xiang ^a,b   Montazeri, Sina ^a   Gisinger, Christoph ^b   Hanssen, Ramon F ^c   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absolute positioning; geodetic SAR tomography; geodetical fusion; SAR geodesy; SAR tomography; stereo SAR; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ABSOLUTE POSITIONING; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; NATURAL SCATTERERS; POSITION ESTIMATES; REFERENCE POINTS; RELATIVE POSITIONING; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEODESY; GEODETIC NETWORK; LIDAR; POSITIONING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X; TOMOGRAPHY;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84947026648     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2448686     Document Type: Article

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