A temporal decorrelation model for polarimetric radar interferometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 7 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2880-2888

  Lavalle, Marco ^a   Simard, Marc ^a   Hensley, Scott ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decorrelation; interferometry; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADARS; CANOPY HEIGHTS; DECORRELATIONS; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; LAND SURFACE; PHYSICAL MODEL; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WAVE POLARIZATIONS;

INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84861325481     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2174367     Document Type: Article

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