Polarimetric scattering indexes and information entropy of the SAR imagery for surface monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2502-2506

  Jin, Ya Qiu ^a   Chen, Fei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy; Polarimetric indexes; Surface classification; Synthetic aperture radar image

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

SURFACE MONITORING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0036875685     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.803735     Document Type: Article

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