Polarimetric SAR speckle noise model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 10 PART I, 2003, Pages 2232-2242

  López Martínez, Carlos ^a   Fàbregas, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Covariance matrix; Noise modeling; Speckle noise; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

COVARIANCE MATRIX ELEMENTS; POLARIZATION WAVE DIVERSITY; SPECKLE NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0242355087     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.815240     Document Type: Article

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