Classification of fully polarimetric single- and dual-frequency SAR data of sea ice using the Wishart statistics

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-72

  Scheuchl, Bernd ^a   Cumming, Ian ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIHEDRAL SCATTERING; FREEMAN-DURDEN MODEL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; POLARIMETRIC DATA;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 19544391467     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m04-060     Document Type: Article

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