Polarimetric and interferometric characterization of coherent scatterers in urban areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 971-983

  Schneider, Rafael Zandoná ^a,b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a,b,c   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Moreira, Alberto ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c Pol InSAR Group

^d German Association for Electrical Electronic and Information Technologies (VDE)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherent scatterers; Orientation angle; Polarimetric SAR interferometry; SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERERS; ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR POLARIMETRY; URBAN AREAS;

DATA REDUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SCATTERING;

EID: 33645684262     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.860950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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