Single and multipolarimetric SAR tomography of forested areas: A parametric approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2375-2387

  Tebaldini, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; Radar signal processing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Tomography

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL; BACK-SCATTERED; COVARIANCE MATCHING; DECORRELATIONS; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; FORESTED AREA; FORESTED SITES; FOURIER SPECTRA; MULTI-BASELINE; PARAMETRIC APPROACH; POLARIMETRIC DATA; POLARIMETRY; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SCATTERING CENTERS; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHIC; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

ELLIPSOMETRY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; BACKSCATTER; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOURIER TRANSFORM; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

REMNINGSTORP; SWEDEN; VASTRA GOTALAND;

EID: 77951298992     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037748     Document Type: Article

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