Four-component decomposition of polarimetric SAR images with deorientation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1090-1094

  An, Wentao ^a   Xie, Chunhua ^a   Yuan, Xinzhe ^a   Cui, Yi ^b   Yang, Jian ^b  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE OCEAN APPLICATION SERVICE   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Deorientation; incoherent polarimetric decomposition; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE MATRIX; DEORIENTATION; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS; URBAN AREAS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 80255123336     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2157078     Document Type: Article

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