Detecting depolarized targets using a new geometrical perturbation filter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART1, 2012, Pages 3787-3799

  Marino, Armando ^a   Cloude, Shane R ^b   Woodhouse, Iain H ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Applied Electromagnetic Consultants (AELc)   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY DEGREE; FEATURE VECTORS; PERTURBATION METHOD; TARGET DETECTORS; TERRASAR-X;

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COVARIANCE MATRIX; ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIMETERS; TARGET TRACKING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DETECTION METHOD; FILTER; GEOMETRY; MATRIX; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; TERRA (SATELLITE);

EID: 84867052439     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2185703     Document Type: Article

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