Analysis of the double bounce scattering mechanism of buildings in VHR SAR data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7109, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Brunner, D ^a,b   Bruzzone, L ^a   Ferro, A ^a   Fortuny, J ^b   Lemoine, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corner reflector; Double bounce; Polarimetric decompositions; Remote sensing; Scattering from buildings; Synthetic aperture radar; Urban areas; Very high geometrical resolution images

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CORNER REFLECTOR; DOUBLE BOUNCE; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITIONS; URBAN AREAS; VERY HIGH GEOMETRICAL RESOLUTION IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 57649135199     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.801670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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