Aspects of multilook SAR tomography

Interferometric and particularly tomographic processing at full resolution of data acquired by very high resolution SAR systems allows accurate 3D imaging and monitoring of buildings and infrastructures. Recently it has been shown that implementing a light data multilooking leads to a dramatical increase of the density of monitored pixels. In this work we investigate different options for performing the the multilook operation in SAR Tomography and we analyze their performances in terms of detection capabilities of single scatterers.

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