Single-pass polarimetrie SAR interferometry for vessel classification

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3494-3502

  Margarit, Gerard ^a,b   Mallorquí, Jordi J ^a,b   Fàbregas, Xavier ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherent target decomposition (CTD); Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PoIInSAR); Vessel classification

Indexed keywords

COHERENT TARGET DECOMPOSITION (CTD); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (POIINSAR); VESSEL CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTERFEROMETRY; MAPS; SCATTERING; TARGET TRACKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35648932013     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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