Coherence characteristics of radar signals from rough soil

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 31, Issue , 2001, Pages 69-88

  Luo, X ^a   Askne, J ^a   Smith, G ^a   Dammert, P ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE CHARACTERISTICS; DE CORRELATIONS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATIONARY-PHASE APPROXIMATION; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SOIL MOISTURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0041674600     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER00052903     Document Type: Article

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