Understanding of partial polarization in polarimetric sar data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2467-2475

  Dong, Y ^a   Forster, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; PARTIAL POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGES; SCATTERING MATRIX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 0030216051     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608948785     Document Type: Article

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