Part III: Multichannel whitening of SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 156-166

  Fleischman, J G ^a   Worris, M A ^a   Ayasli, S ^a   Adams, E M ^a   Gosselin, D R ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SPECKLE; MULTICHANNEL WHITENING; POLARIMETRIC WHITENING; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIRRORS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR CLUTTER; SPECKLE; VECTORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0029733030     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.481258     Document Type: Article

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