Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: A review

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 115, Issue , 2016, Pages 78-89

  Crosetto, Michele ^a   Monserrat, Oriol ^a   Cuevas González, María ^a   Devanthéry, Núria ^a   Crippa, Bruno ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformation; Monitoring; Radar; Remote sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MONITORING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL EXPANSION;

DEFORMATION RATES; DEFORMATION TIME-SERIES; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DIFFERENTIAL SAR INTERFEROMETRY; PERSISTENT SCATTERER INTERFEROMETRY (PSI); REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; TECHNICAL ASPECTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MONITORING SYSTEM; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 84947548170     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.10.011     Document Type: Short Survey

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