Phenomenological vessel scattering study based on simulated inverse SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1212-1223

  Margarit, Gerard ^a,b   Mallorqui, Jordi J ^a   Fortuny Guasch, Joaquim ^c   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b GMV Aerospace and Defense   (Spain)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherent target decompositions (CTDs); Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; SAR polarimetry; Vessel identification

Indexed keywords

ELLIPSOMETRY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SCATTERING; SEAWATER; SHIP MOCKUPS; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ASPECT ANGLES; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; COHERENT TARGET DECOMPOSITIONS (CTDS); DATA ANALYSIS; FEATURE VECTORS; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; GRAPHICAL ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPUTING; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OBLIQUE INCIDENCES; OPERATING FREQUENCIES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) INTERFEROMETRY; PREDICTION TOOLS; SAR IMAGERIES; SAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SEA SURFACE STATE; VESSEL CLASSIFICATIONS; VESSEL IDENTIFICATION; VIEWING ANGLES;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

RADAR IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SHIP DESIGN; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VESSEL;

EID: 63149157321     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008443     Document Type: Article

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