Analysis of the effects of faraday rotation on spaceborne polarimetric SAR observations at P-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1115-1122

  Qi, Ren Yuan ^b   Jin, Ya Qiu ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Faraday rotation (FR); P band polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Terrain surface classification

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION; P-BAND POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); POLARIMETRIC DATA; TERRAIN SURFACE CLASSIFICATION;

IONOSPHERE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FARADAY EFFECT;

EID: 34247476292     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.892583     Document Type: Article

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