Interlook cross-correlation function of speckle in SAR images of sea surface processed with partially overlapped subapertures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 695-701

  Ouchi, Kazuo ^a   Wang, Haipeng ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross correlation function (CCF); Scene coherence time; Sea surface; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE SENSORS; NOISE ABATEMENT; SPECKLE; WHITE NOISE;

CROSS CORRELATION FUNCTION (CCF); PARTIALLY OVERLAPPED SUBAPERTURES; SCHENE COHERENCE TIME; SEA SURFACE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 16444364251     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.842439     Document Type: Article

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