Title :
Automated terrain corrected SAR geocoding
Author_Institution :
Gamma Remote Sensing, Bern, Switzerland
Abstract :
A technique for automated terrain corrected SAR geocoding is presented. Instead of operator selected control points the presented method uses cross-correlation with a SAR intensity image simulated from the digital elevation model to refine the geocoding transformation
Keywords :
geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image coding; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; SAR; SAR intensity image; automated terrain corrected method; cross-correlation; digital elevation model; geocoding; geocoding transformation; geophysical measurement technique; image coding; land surface; radar imaging; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; Automatic control; Digital elevation models; Ellipsoids; Error correction; Flowcharts; Geometry; Interferometry; Orbital calculations; Remote sensing; Table lookup;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1999. IGARSS '99 Proceedings. IEEE 1999 International
Conference_Location :
Hamburg
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5207-6
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1999.772070
