Application of the Matrix-variate mellin transform to analysis of polarimetric radar images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2281-2295

  Anfinsen, Stian Normann ^a   Eltoft, Torbjrn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Doubly stochastic product model; matrix variate statistics; Mellin transform (MT); method of log cumulants; parameter estimation; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

MATRIX-VARIATE STATISTICS; MELLIN TRANSFORM (MT); METHOD OF LOG-CUMULANTS; PRODUCT MODELS; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METADATA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSFORM;

EID: 79957654930     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2103945     Document Type: Article

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