Disaster monitoring by fully polarimetric SAR data acquired with ALOS-PALSAR

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2851-2860

  Yamaguchi, Yoshio ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array type L band Synthetic Aperture Radar (ALOS PALSAR); disaster monitoring; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR); radar polarimetry; scattering matrix; scattering power decomposition

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DISASTERS; IMAGE CODING; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITE PHASED-ARRAY-TYPE L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ALOS-PALSAR); DISASTER MONITORING; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MATRICES; SCATTERING POWER DECOMPOSITIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84866541945     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2195469     Document Type: Article

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