Letters
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Phenomenology of P-Band Scattering From a Tropical Forest Through Three-Dimensional SAR Tomography
The aim of this letter is to discuss recent results from the tomographic analysis of the P-band synthetic aperture radar multibaseline data set acquired by ONERA over French Guyana, in the frame of the European Space Agency campaign TropiSAR. Such a data set is characterized…
Tracking of Vector Roads for the Determination of Seams in Aerial Image Mosaics
This letter proposes a novel approach using vector roads to aid in generating seams for aerial image mosaicking. A representative seam of two adjacent images is extracted as follows. First, the vector roads in the overlapping area of adjacent images are overlaid with the straight…
A Modified Neighborhood Similar Pixel Interpolator Approach for Removing Thick Clouds in Landsat Images
Thick-cloud contamination is a common problem in Landsat images, which limits their utilities in various land surface studies. This letter presents a new method for removing thick clouds based on a modified neighborhood similar pixel interpolator (NSPI) approach that was originally developed for filling gaps…
Mask Cut Optimization in Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping
This letter proposes an improved mask cut method for 2-D phase unwrapping. The method is designed to generate thin mask cuts to balance the residues. Network flow ideas are taken to build the strategy of mask cut generation. The predecessor index is recorded for every…
Uncertainties in Remote Sensing Reflectance From MODIS-Terra
A validation analysis of remote sensing reflectance (RRS) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard Terra (MODIS-T) is conducted with field RRS data obtained at three fixed sites equipped with autonomous radiometers in the coastal northern Adriatic Sea and at two locations…
Omega-K Algorithm for Spaceborne Spotlight SAR Imaging
Since the spaceborne spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the long slant range and the high altitude, it generates the curved flight path due to the orbit curvature effect and the time delay due to the long round-trip time of the chirp pulse. Thus, to…
Postearthquake Building Damage Assessment Using Multi-Mutual Information From Pre-Event Optical Image and Postevent SAR Image
An approach of multi-mutual information (M-MI) is presented for change detection and evaluation of building damages after an earthquake. Fusion of very high resolution pre-event optical and postevent synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images becomes feasible for timely evaluation of earthquake losses. Based on the geometric…
