The Unpolarized Component in Polarimetric Radar Observations of Forested Areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 268-271

  Durden, Stephen L ^a   Van Zyl, Jakob J ^a   Zebker, Howard A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; RADAR--SCATTERING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; SCATTERING MATRIX;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0025399713     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.46706     Document Type: Article

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