Texture and Speckle in High Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Clutter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 192-203

  Posner, Fred L ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR;

HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR; HOMOGENEOUS CLUTTER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027307256     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.210460     Document Type: Article

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