Applying H/α decomposition to compact polarimetric SAR

IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 61-70

  Guo, R ^a   Liu, Y B ^b   Wu, Y H ^c   Zhang, S X ^a   Xing, M D ^a   He, W ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c AIR FORCE RADAR ACADEMY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; INFORMATION LOSS; LARGE DATA VOLUMES; POLARIMETRIC SAR; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (SAR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 84863374142     PISSN: 17518784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2011.0007     Document Type: Article

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