Distortion Reduction in Singularity-Spreading Phase Unwrapping With Pseudo-Continuous Spreading and Self-Clustering Active Localization

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3846-3858

  Oshiyama, Gen ^a   Hirose, Akira ^b  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); phase unwrapping; singular point (SP); singularity spreading phase unwrapping (SSPU)

Indexed keywords

REDUCTION; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE LOCALIZATIONS; BRANCH-CUT METHOD; COMBINATORIAL PROBLEM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISTORTION REDUCTION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHASE UNWRAPPING; SINGULAR POINTS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85027955661     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2325873     Document Type: Article

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