A new decomposition of radar polarization signatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 933-939

  Dong, Yunhan ^a   Forster, Bruce C ^a   Ticehurst, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; Decomposition; Polarimetry; Radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001760031     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.673684     Document Type: Article

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