On the reconstruction of quad-pol sar data from compact polarimetry data for ocean target detection

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 591-600

  Collins, Michael J ^a   Denbina, Michael ^a   Atteia, Ghada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circular polarization; compact polarimetry (CP); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target detection

Indexed keywords

COMPACT POLARIMETRIES; DETECTING TARGET; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; OCEAN CLUTTER; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; SAR DATA; STOKES VECTOR;

ALGORITHMS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; ELLIPSOMETRY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; TARGET TRACKING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; STOKES FORMULA; SWATH BATHYMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84871783346     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2199760     Document Type: Article

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