Three-stage inversion process for polarimetric SAR interferometry

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 125-134

  Cloude, S R ^a   Papathanassiou, K P ^b  

^a AEL Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; THREE-STAGE INVERSION PROCESS; TWO-LAYER COHERENT SCATTERING MODEL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0038783717     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20030449     Document Type: Article

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