Probability Density Functions for Multilook Polarimetric Signatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 562-574

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COPOLAR PHASE DIFFERENCE; COVARIANCE MATRICES; MULTILOOK POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0028428659     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.297975     Document Type: Article

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