Complex Wishart distribution based analysis of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data

Proceedings of MultiTemp 2007 - 2007 International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nielsen, Allan A ^a   Skriver, Henning ^a   Conradsen, Knut ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DETECTORS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE OPTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TESTING;

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; CASE STUDIES; CHANGE DETECTION; DENMARK; HERMITIAN; INTERNATIONAL (CO); MATRIX REPRESENTATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL REMOTE SENSING; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (POLSAR); POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POSITIVE DEFINITE MATRICES; RADARSAT-2; SPACE-BORNE; TERRASAR-X; WISHART DISTRIBUTION;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 47249097552     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MULTITEMP.2007.4293078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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