Polarimetric Modeling and Parameter Estimation with Applications to Remote Sensing

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1923-1935

  Nehorai, Arye ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

CRAMER-RAO BOUND; POLARIMETRIC MODELING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0029360109     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: 19410476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.403351     Document Type: Article

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