A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 498-518

  Cloude, Shane Robert ^a   Pettier, Eric ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; SPECKLE; VECTORS;

COHERENT DECOMPOSITION; MUELLER MATRIX; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MATRIX; STOKES VECTOR; TARGET DECOMPOSITION THEOREM; VECTOR RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030104487     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485127     Document Type: Article

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