Four-component scattering power decomposition with rotation of coherency matrix

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2251-2258

  Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a   Sato, Akinobu ^a   Boerner, Wolfgang Martin ^b   Sato, Ryoichi ^a   Yamada, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherency matrix rotation; deorientation; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR); radar polarimetry; scattering power decomposition

Indexed keywords

COHERENCY MATRIX; COHERENCY MATRIX ROTATION; CROSS-POLARIZED; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; DEORIENTATION; FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION; FULLY POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POWER DECOMPOSITION; RADAR DIRECTION; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; URBAN AREAS; VOLUME SCATTERING;

DECOMPOSITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION;

SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTER; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; POLARIZATION; POWER; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA; VOLUME;

EID: 79957646635     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2099124     Document Type: Article

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