A procedure for measuring the coherence length of the sea texture

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 836-841

  Conte, Ernesto ^a   Di Bisceglie, Maurizio ^a   Galdi, Carmela ^a   Ricci, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Compound gaussian model; Radar clutter; Sea texture; Temporal coherence

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR CLUTTER; RANDOM PROCESSES; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPOUND GAUSSIAN PROCESS; SEA TEXTURE;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031199037     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.650784     Document Type: Article

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