Clutter discrimination in polarimetric and interferometric synthetic aperture radar imagery

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-566

  Blacknell, David ^a   Tough, Robert J A ^a,b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b TW Research Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR COUNTERMEASURES; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLUTTER DISCRIMINATION; IMAGE FEATURES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; MULTI CHANNEL ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0031076392     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/30/4/009     Document Type: Article

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