Cramer-Rao lower bound analysis of vegetation height estimation with random volume over ground model and polarimetric SAR interferometry

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1115-1119

  Roueff, Antoine ^a   Arnaubec, Aurélien ^a,b   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^b   Réfrégier, Philippe ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao lower bound (CRLB); polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR); random volume over ground (RVoG) model

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERACTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; STANDARD DEVIATION; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80255133216     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2157891     Document Type: Article

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