Radar imaging simulation for urban structures

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 68-72

  Brunner, Dominik ^a,b   Lemoine, Guido ^a   Greidanus, Harm ^a   Bruzzone, Lorenzo ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Radar imaging simulation; ray tracing; remote sensing; spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR); very high resolution (VHR) images

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; EGYPTIANS; IMAGING SIMULATION; MAN MADE OBJECTS; MIXTURE MODEL; PRECISE SIMULATION; SAR IMAGERY; SAR IMAGES; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TERRASAR-X; URBAN STRUCTURE; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RAY TRACING; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650958064     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2051214     Document Type: Article

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