Interferometric SAR coherence magnitude estimation using second kind statistics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1942-1953

  Abdelfattah, Riadh ^a   Nicolas, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Biased estimator; Complex coherence estimation; Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); Sample coherence magnitude; Sample second kind statistics

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIASED ESTIMATOR; COMPLEX COHERENCE ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); SAMPLE COHERENCE MAGNITUDE; SAMPLE SECOND KIND STATISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746354302     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.870440     Document Type: Article

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