Indoor experiments on polarimetric SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 671-684

  Sagués, Lluis ^a   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^b   Fortuny, Joaquim ^b   Fàbregas, Xavier ^a   Broquetas, Antoni ^a   Sieber, Alois J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; POLARIZATION SUBSPACE METHOD; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0033904346     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841997     Document Type: Article

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