Nongaussian signal statistics in ocean SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 562575-

  Eltoft, Torbjorn ^a   Hogda, Kjell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

azimuth smearing; K distribution; Microwave radar backscatter; Nongaussian statistics; Scene coherence time; Signal statistics; Synthetic aperture radar (sar) imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747943869     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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