Landslide displacement monitoring by a fully polarimetric SAR offset tracking method

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Changcheng ^a   Mao, Xiaokang ^a,b   Wang, Qijie ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China Railway SIYUAN Survey and Design Group   (China)

Author keywords

Displacement; Landslide monitoring; Offset tracking; PolSAR

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CORRELATION METHODS; DISASTER PREVENTION; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; LANDSLIDES; PIXELS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING;

DISPLACEMENT; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LANDSLIDE MONITORING; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; OFFSET TRACKING; POLSAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84983775831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080624     Document Type: Article

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