SAR imaging of fractal surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 630-644

  Di Martino, Gerardo ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a   Zinno, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; fractals; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED FORM; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; FRACTAL PARAMETERS; FRACTAL SCATTERING; FRACTAL SURFACES; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; INVERSE TECHNIQUES; NATURAL SCENES; NATURAL SURFACE; SAR IMAGES; SAR IMAGING; SCENE DESCRIPTION; SURFACE FRACTALS; THEORETICAL MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING; SPECTRAL DENSITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCATTERING; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856320959     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2161997     Document Type: Article

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