Urban-target recognition by means of repeated spaceborne SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4043-4058

  Perissin, Daniele ^a   Ferretti, Alessandro ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Tele Rilevamento Europa   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Polarimetry; Radar target recognition; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Urban areas

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALTERNATING POLARIZATION (AP); RADAR SIGNALS; URBAN AREAS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 36448976914     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.906092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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