Study of Physical Phenomena of Vegetation Using Polarimetric Scattering indices and Entropy

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 432-438

  Maity, Saroj ^a   Patnaik, C ^a   Parihar, Jai Singh ^a   Panigrahy, Sushma ^a   Reddy, K Ashoka ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Decomposition technique; entropy; polarimetric indices; SAR image; vegetation

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CROSS-POLARIZED; DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE; EIGEN DECOMPOSITION; EIGEN-VALUE; GROWTH STAGES; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; POLARIMETRIC INDICES; POLARIMETRIC MODELS; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; POLARIZATION INDICES; POLARIZED SCATTERING SIGNATURES; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; RADARSAT-2; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; VEGETATION CANOPY; VEGETATION PARAMETERS; VOLUME SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING; ENTROPY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

BACKSCATTER; EIGENVALUE; ENTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

EID: 80052324817     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2076272     Document Type: Article

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