High-resolution microwave polarimetric imaging of small trees

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 48-53

  Brown, Sarah C M ^a   Bennett, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High resolution imaging; Near field measurements; Synthetic aperture radar (sar); Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROWAVE POLARIMETRIC IMAGING; PLANAR NEAR-FIELD MONOSTATIC IMAGING SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032754834     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739114     Document Type: Article

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