Ground-based radar interferometry for landslides monitoring: Atmospheric and instrumental decorrelation sources on experimental data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2454-2466

  Luzi, Guido ^a   Pieraccini, Massimiliano ^a   Mecatti, Daniele ^a   Noferini, Linhsia ^a   Guidi, Gabriele ^a   Moia, Fabio ^b   Atzeni, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ENEL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decorrelation; Differential interferometry; Ground based synthetic aperture radar; Phase stability; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MOTION COMPENSATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DECORRELATION; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; GROUND-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; PHASE STABILITY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 9944249642     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.836792     Document Type: Article

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