Application of target decomposition theorems over snow-covered forested areas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 508-512

  Trudel, Melanie ^a,b   Magagi, Ramata ^a   Granberg, Hardy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold Land Processes Field Experiments (CLPX); Forested areas; Polarimetry; Scattering mechanisms; Snow; Target decomposition (TD)

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELLIPSOMETRY; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; SNOW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

COLD-LAND PROCESSES FIELD EXPERIMENTS (CLPX); FORESTED AREAS; POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; TARGET DECOMPOSITION (TD);

SCATTERING;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; SNOW COVER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

EID: 59849112306     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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