Temporal Filtering of InSAR Data Using Statistical Parameters from NWP Models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 4033-4044

  Gong, Wenyu ^a   Meyer, Franz J ^a   Liu, Shizhuo ^b   Hanssen, Ramon F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurement; interferometry; statistics; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; MOTION COMPENSATION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC-APERTURE-RADAR INTERFEROMETRIES; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; REGIONAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85027941443     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2389143     Document Type: Article

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