Advanced polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and Electro-Optical (EO) data fusion through unified coherent formulation of the scattered em field

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 84, Issue , 2008, Pages 189-203

  Sabry, R ^a   Vachon, P W ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPACT POLARIMETRIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRA; ILLUMINATION FIELDS; POLARIMETRIC SENSORS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; TARGET INFORMATION; TARGET RECOGNITION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 52949086462     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER08071005     Document Type: Article

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