Automated terrain corrected SAR geocoding
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چکیده
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.
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