Reflectivity estimation for multibaseline interferometric radar imaging of layover extended sources

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1508-1519

  Lombardini, Fabrizio ^a   Montanari, Monica ^a   Gini, Fulvio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude estimation; Array signal processing; Multicomponent signals; Multiplicative noise; Speckle; Spectral analysis; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMPLITUDE ESTIMATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0038321251     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.811239     Document Type: Article

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