Intensity and Phase Statistics of Multilook Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1017-1028

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a   Miller, Allen R ^b   Mango, Stephen A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY; SPECKLE; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECORRELATION EFFECTS; INTERFEROGRAMS; POLARIMETRIC COVARIANCE MATRIX; POLARIMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0028496693     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.312890     Document Type: Article

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