Improvement of gaofen-3 absolute positioning accuracy based on cross-calibration

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Deng, Mingjun ^a   Zhang, Guo ^a   Zhao, Ruishan ^b   Li, Shaoning ^a   Li, Jiansong ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LIAONING TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross calibration; Gaofen 3; Geometric accuracy

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ROCK MECHANICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CALIBRATION ACCURACY; CONSISTENCY CONSTRAINTS; CROSS CALIBRATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FULL POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); GAOFEN-3; GEOMETRIC ACCURACY; GEOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONJUGATE;

EID: 85038389422     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17122903     Document Type: Article

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