Universal multifractal scaling of synthetic aperture radar images of sea-ice

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 906-914

  Falco, Tony ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRACTALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LINEAR POLARIZATION; RADAR SCATTERING; SCALE INVARIANT PROPERTIES; UNIVERSAL MULTIFRACTAL SCALING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030189517     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.508407     Document Type: Article

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