Polarimetric Optimisation Applied to Permanent Scatterers Identification

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 687-689

  Refice, Alberto ^a   Mattia, Francesco ^a   De Carolis, Giacomo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLARIMETERS;

SIGNAL TO CLUTTER RATIO (SCR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0242711709     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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