An Iterative Inversion Algorithm with Application to the Polarimetric Radar Response of Vegetation Canopies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 62-71

  Polatin, Paul F ^a   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

POLARIMETRIC RADAR RESPONSE; SCENE PARAMETERS; VEGETATION CANOPIES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0028016829     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.285189     Document Type: Article

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