Equivalence between Cameron's unit disc and Poincar's sphere for symmetric scattering characterization and classification

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-156

  Giusti, Elisa ^a   Martorella, Marco ^a   Petronio, Carlo ^a   Berizzi, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; POINCARE; SCATTERING MATRIXES; TARGET CLASSIFICATIONS; UNIT DISCS;

SPHERES;

SCATTERING;

EID: 63149124102     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.915739     Document Type: Article

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