Four-component model-based decomposition of polarimetric SAR data for special ground objects

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 989-993

  Shan, Zili ^a,b   Zhang, Hong ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   An, Wentao ^c   Wu, Tao ^d   Chen, Xi ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE OCEAN APPLICATION SERVICE   (China)

^d EAST CHINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Four component decomposition; nonnegative eigenvalue decomposition (NNED); rotated double bounce model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COHERENCY MATRIX; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; FOUR-COMPONENT DECOMPOSITION; FRESNEL; GERMANY; GROUND OBJECTS; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REFLECTION MODELS; SCATTERING CHAR-ACTERISTICS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; SCATTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84861941290     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2188092     Document Type: Article

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