Title :
Potential of multipass very high resolution SAR interferometry for dam monitoring
Author :
Vasile, G. ; Boldo, D. ; Boudon, R. ; Urso, G.D. ; Muja, R.
Author_Institution :
GIPSA-Lab., Grenoble, France
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel strategy for dam monitoring by repeat-pass SAR interferometry. The proposed approach couples sub-band / sub-aperture decomposition prior to the GLRT-LQ detector. This method is tested with spaceborne InSAR images provided by the TerraSAR-X satellite.
Keywords :
radar imaging; radar interferometry; radar resolution; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; GLRT-LQ detector; TerraSAR-X satellite; dam monitoring; multipass very high resolution SAR interferometry; repeat-pass SAR interferometry; spaceborne InSAR images; subband-sub-aperture decomposition; Clutter; Computational modeling; Covariance matrix; Detectors; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar; Vectors; SAR; TerraSAR-X; interferometry;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (COMM), 2012 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bucharest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0057-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICComm.2012.6262557
