Statistics of the stokes parameters and of the complex coherence parameters in one-look and multilook speckle fields

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 519-531

  Touzi, Ridha ^a   Lopes, Armand ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR IMAGING; SPECKLE; VECTORS;

COMPLEX COHERENCE PARAMETERS; GAUSSIAN AREA; MULTILOOK SPECKLE FIELD; ONE LOOK SPECKLE FIELD; PHASE DIFFERENCE; STOKES PARAMETER STATISTICS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0030104488     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.485128     Document Type: Article

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