On Huynen's Decomposition of a Kennaugh Matrix

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 369-372

  Yang, Jian ^a,b   Peng, Ying Ning ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a,c   Yamada, Hiroyoshi ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Kennaugh matrix; Radar polarimetry; Scattering matrix

Indexed keywords

KENNAUGH MATRIX; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MATRIX;

LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33746603138     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.873229     Document Type: Article

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