Measurement and characterization of entropy and degree of polarization of weather radar targets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3196-3207

  Galletti, Michele ^a   Bebbington, David H O ^b   Chandra, Madhu ^c   Börner, Thomas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degree of polarization; Depolarization response; Instantaneous scattering matrix (ISM); Scattering matrix; Target decomposition (TD) theorems

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES;

DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DEPOLARIZATION RESPONSE; INSTANTANEOUS SCATTERING MATRIX (ISM); SCATTERING MATRIX; TARGET DECOMPOSITION (TD) THEOREMS;

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 53849118170     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.920910     Document Type: Conference Paper

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