A fractal-based theoretical framework for retrieval of surface parameters from electromagnetic backscattering data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 641-650

  Franceschetti, Giorgio ^a   Lodice, Antonio ^a   Maddaluno, Stefania ^b   Riccio, Daniele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractals; Parameter retrieval; Remote sensing; Scattering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC MODEL; FRACTAL GEOMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0033890552     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841994     Document Type: Article

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