Quantitative comparison of classification capability: Fully polarimetric versus dual and single-polarization SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2343-2351

  Lee, Jong Sen ^a,b   Grunes, Mitchell R ^a,b   Pottier, Eric ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrain classification

Indexed keywords

C-BAND FREQUENCIES; DUAL-POLARIZATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SINGLE-POLARIZATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0035510570     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.964970     Document Type: Article

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