Measurement of topography using polarimetric SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1266-1277

  Schuler, Dale L ^a,b   Lee, Long Sen ^a,b   Gianfranco De Grandi, ^a,b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

COPOLARIZATION BACKSCATTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; TOPOGRAPHY;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030242064     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.536542     Document Type: Article

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