Terrain topography measurement using multipass polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 813-832

  Schuler, Dale L ^a   Lee, Jong Sen ^a   Ainsworth, Thomas L ^a   Grunes, Mitchell R ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; POISSON EQUATION; POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURE MAXIMUM METHOD; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN TOPOGRAPHY MEASUREMENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0034186956     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002266     Document Type: Article

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