Modeling microwave fully polarimetric passive observations of the sea surface: A neural network approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2098-2107

  Pulvirenti, Luca ^a,b   Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a,c   Pierdicca, Nazzareno ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Neural network (NN); Polarimetry; Satellite passive remote sensing; Scattering model; Sea surface

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; ITERATIVE SIMULATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SATELLITE PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING MODELS; SEA SURFACES;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347250748     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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