Analyzing tomographic SAR data of a forest with respect to frequency, polarization, and focusing technique

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3648-3659

  Frey, Othmar ^a,b,c   Meier, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; Backscattering mechanisms; Beamforming; Capon beamformer; Forestry; L band; Multibaseline; Multiple signal classification; P band; Polarimetry; SAR tomography; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Time domain backprojection (TDBP)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; CAPON BEAMFORMER; L-BAND; MULTI-BASELINE; MULTIPLE SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION; P-BAND; SAR TOMOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN;

BACKSCATTERING; BEAMFORMING; FLIGHT PATHS; FOCUSING; FORESTRY; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY; FREQUENCY; POLARIMETRY; POLAROGRAPHY; RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

EID: 80053571947     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2125972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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