Interferometric Techniques for Terrasar-x Data
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چکیده
Generating Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) out of interferometric image pairs is one of the well-known SAR applications which are used all over the world. The aim of our project is to find new/extended methods for InSAR processing to improve the quality of the final DEM result. We investigate in the fields of image registration, baseline estimation/interpolation and phase unwrapping. In each discipline there is a lot of potential for improving the individual results. The paper gives a summary of the methods we have applied and shows some results using TerraSAR-X test sites.
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