Estimating the effective number of looks in interferometric SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1733-1742

  Gierull, Christoph H ^a,b   Sikaneta, Ishuwa C ^b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effective number of looks; Moving target indication; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry

Indexed keywords

MOVING-TARGET INDICATION;

INTERFEROMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036699897     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802457     Document Type: Article

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