The compact polarimetry alternative for spaceborne SAR at low frequency

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3208-3222

  Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a   Souyris, Jean Claude ^b   Angelliaume, Sébastien ^a   Garestier, Franck ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Compact polarimetry (CP); Forest height inversion; Low frequency; Polarimetric interferometry; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELLIPSOMETRY; FORESTRY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INTERFEROMETRY; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; COMPACT POLARIMETRIES; FOREST HEIGHT INVERSION; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LOW-FREQUENCY; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 53849128930     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.919143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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