Model-based decomposition of polarimetric SAR covariance matrices constrained for nonnegative eigenvalues

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3452-3459

  Van Zyl, Jakob J ^a   Arii, Motofumi ^b   Kim, Yunjin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI SPACE SOFTWARE CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Model based decomposition; nonnegative eigenvalue decomposition (NNED); radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CANOPY SCATTERING; COVARIANCE MATRICES; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUES; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUE; MATRIX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80052319876     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2128325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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