Fundamental estimation bounds for Polarimetric imagery

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12018-12036

  LeMaster, Daniel A ^a  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; POLARIMETERS; RANDOM ERRORS;

ESTIMATION BOUNDS; LINEAR POLARIZATION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGERY; POLARIZATION CHANNELS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; REGISTRATION ERROR; REGISTRATION PRECISION;

POLARIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49149088864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012018     Document Type: Article

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