Maximum Likelihood Estimation of K Distribution Parameters for SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 989-999

  Joughin, Ian R ^a   Percival, Donald B ^a   Winebrenner, Dale P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BACKSCATTERING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; ITERATIVE METHODS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING STATISTICS; K DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MOMENTS TECHNIQUE; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION MODEL; SIMPLIFIED MULTILOOK MODEL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0027663754     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.263769     Document Type: Article

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