Dual-polarized terrasar-X data for oil-spill observation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 4751-4762

  Velotto, Domenico ^a   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^b   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^b   Lehner, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coherence; copolarized phase difference (CPD); sea oil slicks; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

CO-POLARIZED PHASE DIFFERENCE; DUAL-POLARIZED; OIL SLICKS; POLARIMETRIC MODELS; SAR DATA; SLANT-RANGE COMPLEXES; STANDARD DEVIATION; TERRASAR-X; TWO PARAMETER; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

COHERENT LIGHT; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMPLITUDE; CORRELATION; DAMPING; OIL SPILL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; STANDARD (REGULATION); TERRASAR-X;

EID: 82155185167     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2162960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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