Alternatives to target entropy and alpha angle in SAR polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2262-2274

  Praks, Jaan ^a   Koeniguer, Elise Colin ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Alpha; Ellipsometry; Entropy; Optical polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SAR; ALPHA; COMPLEX MATHEMATICS; OPTICAL POLARIMETRY; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SAR POLARIMETRY; SIMILARITY INVARIANTS; SIMPLE ALGORITHM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) POLARIMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR POLARIMETRIES;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELLIPSOMETRY; ENTROPY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTROPY; LABORATORY METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67651165045     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013459     Document Type: Article

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