Coherence estimation for SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 135-149

  Touzi, Ridha ^a,b   Lopes, Armand ^a,c   Bruniquel, Jérôme ^b,c   Vachon, Paris W ^a,b,c  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b CNES   (France)

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Interferometry; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (sar)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COHERENCE ESTIMATION; SPACE-AVERAGE COHERENCE MAGNITUDES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032712790     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739146     Document Type: Article

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