Ambiguity resolution for permanent scatterer interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2446-2453

  Kampes, Bert M ^a   Hanssen, Ramon F ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nonlinear parameter inversion; Permanent scatterers; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; VECTORS;

NONLINEAR PARAMETER INVERSION; PERMANENT SCATTERERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) INTERFEROMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 9944248167     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.835222     Document Type: Article

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