A polarimetric target detector using the Huynen fork

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2357-2366

  Marino, Armando ^a   Cloude, Shane R ^b   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b AEL Consultants   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; Polarization fork (PF); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Target detection; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; PAULI SCATTERINGS; POLARIMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR POLARIMETRIES; TARGET DETECTION; TARGET DETECTORS; TARGET REPRESENTATION; TARGET SPACE;

DETECTORS; ELLIPSOMETRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS; TRACKING RADAR;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

CORRELATION; DETECTION METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77951298812     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2038592     Document Type: Article

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