Analysis and applications of backscattered frequency correlation function

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1895-1906

  Sarabandi, Kamal ^a   Nashashibi, Adib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FREQUENCY CORRELATION FUNCTIONS (FCF); INVERSION ALGORITHMS; RADAR BACKSCATTERING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032678541     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774702     Document Type: Article

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