Single-look complex COSMO-SkyMed SAR data to observe metallic targets at Sea

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 893-901

  Migliaccio, Maurizio ^a   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^a   Montuori, Antonio ^a   Paes, Rafael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Air France Flight 447; COSMO SkyMed; metallic target; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIR FRANCE; BRAZILIAN COAST; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; COSMO-SKYMED; DATA SETS; FALSE ALARM RATE; FILTER-BASED; INCIDENCE ANGLES; METALLIC TARGETS; PHYSICALLY BASED; PROCESSING TIME; SAR DATA; SINGLE-LOOK COMPLEXES; SPECKLE NOISE;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; DEBRIS; ERRORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COSMO-SKYMED; DATA SET; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863527818     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2184271     Document Type: Article

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