A physically consistent speckle model for marine SLC SAR images

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 839-847

  Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a   Ferrara, Giuseppe ^a   Gambardella, Attilio ^b   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^a   Sorrentino, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Marine; Oil spill; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SINGLE-LOOK COMPLEX SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGE; SPECKLE MODEL;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 40749147612     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2007.903985     Document Type: Article

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