Correction of SAR imagery for variation in pixel scattering area caused by topography

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 344-350

  Luckman, Adrian J ^a,b  

^a National Space Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIRSAR; Forest; Scattering area normalization; Synthetic aperture radar (sar)

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

PIXEL SCATTERING; SCATTERING AREA NORMALIZATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0031673761     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.655350     Document Type: Article

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