Estimation of surface roughness parameter in intertidal mudflat using airborne polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1022-1031

  Park, Sang Eun ^a   Moon, Wooil M ^b,c   Kim, Duk Jin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Intertidal flat; Surface roughness; Surface scattering model; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; ELLIPSOMETRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTORESISTS; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SCATTERING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE SAR; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DUAL-POLARIZED; FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; INTER-TIDAL ZONES; INTERTIDAL FLAT; INTERTIDAL MUDFLATS; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; INVERSION PROBLEMS; MODEL-BASED INVERSIONS; MUDFLAT; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATUM; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SCATTERING SURFACES; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS; SURFACE SCATTERING MODEL; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) POLARIMETRY; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; UNKNOWN SURFACES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; COASTAL ZONE; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; MUDFLAT; ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63149105402     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008908     Document Type: Article

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