Improved four-component model-based target decomposition for polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 75-79

  Shan, Zili ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   An, Wentao ^b  

^a CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

^b NATIONAL SATELLITE OCEAN APPLICATION SERVICE   (China)

Author keywords

Incoherent polarimetric decomposition; orientation angle (OA); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Yamaguchi decomposition

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; BEIJING , CHINA; COHERENCY MATRIX; IDENTITY MATRICES; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; ORIENTATION ANGLE (OA); ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC IMAGE; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA; POWER CONSTRAINTS; RESIDUAL AREA; TARGET DECOMPOSITION; URBAN AREAS; VOLUME SCATTERING;

MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84655161888     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2160837     Document Type: Article

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