Improved Polarimetric SAR Classification by Application of Terrain Azimuth Slope Corrections

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 7, Issue , 2003, Pages 4468-4470

  Pairman, D ^a   McNeill, S J ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Calabration; Classification; Polimetric SAR

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ENTROPY; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION;

POLARIZATION ORIENTATION ANGLES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0242540437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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