Statistical and Spatial Properties of Forest Clutter Measured with Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 578-588

  Sheen, Dan R ^a   Johnston, Linda P ^a  

^a ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

forest; multipolarization; remote sensing; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); texture

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR INTERFERENCE - CLUTTER;

DISTRIBUTION SHAPE PARAMETER; FOREST CLUTTER; POLARIMETRIC SAR; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURE AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0026868762     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.142936     Document Type: Article

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