Improved estimators of Faraday rotation in spaceborne polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 846-850

  Chen, Jie ^a,b   Quegan, Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; Faraday rotation (FR); ionospheric effects; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE IMBALANCE; CHANNEL PHASE; DISTRIBUTED TARGET; EXPECTED VALUES; FARADAY ROTATIONS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HIGH RESISTANCE; IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; PHASE AMBIGUITY; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRY; SPACE-BORNE; SYSTEM NOISE; TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELLIPSOMETRY; ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; ROTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77957993286     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2047002     Document Type: Article

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