Polarimetric discriminators for SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 973-980

  Touzi, Ridha ^a   Goze, Stéphane ^b   Toan, Thuy Le ^c   Lopes, Armand ^c   Mougin, Eric ^c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

degree of polarization; partially polarized wave; Polarimetry; SAR image

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

NONSTATIONARY SCATTERERS; POLARIMETRIC DISCRIMINATORS; RADAR IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0026916812     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175332     Document Type: Article

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