Imaging of fractal profiles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3280-3289

  Di Martino, Gerardo ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; fractals; radar; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BACK-SCATTERED; BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; BROWNIAN MODEL; CLOSED FORM; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FRACTAL PARAMETERS; FRACTAL PROFILES; FRACTAL SCATTERING; FRACTIONAL GAUSSIAN NOISE; PARAMETRIC STUDY; POWER DENSITY SPECTRUM; RADAR IMAGE; RADAR SIGNALS; SENSOR RESOLUTION; SLOPE PROFILE; STOCHASTIC PROCESS; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FRACTALS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR IMAGING;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BACKSCATTER; BROWNIAN MOTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; RADAR IMAGERY; SENSOR; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77954760628     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2044661     Document Type: Article

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