Forest parameter estimation in the Pol-InSAR context employing the multiplicative-additive speckle noise model

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 597-607

  López Martínez, Carlos ^a   Fàbregas, Xavier ^a   Pipia, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Cartographic Institute of Catalonia ICC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherence; Polarimetric interferometry; Polarimetry; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; FOREST HEIGHT; GROUND TRUTH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; SINGLE-BASELINE; SPECKLE NOISE;

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; BASELINE CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; LIDAR; NOISE; SATELLITE DATA; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80052792737     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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