Polarimetric temporal analysis of urban environments with a ground-based SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2343-2360

  Pipia, Luca ^a   Fabregas, Xavier ^b   Aguasca, Albert ^b   Lopez Martinez, Carlos ^b  

^a Cartographic Institute of Catalonia ICC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ground based synthetic aperture radar (gbSAR) systems; polarimetric entropy; radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; FILTERING PROCEDURES; GROUND-BASED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; POLARIMETRIC ENTROPY; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; POLARIMETERS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SPACE PLATFORMS; URBAN PLANNING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; ENTROPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MINING; POLARIZATION; SALT; SENSOR; STABILITY ANALYSIS; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; URBAN AREA;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SALLENT; SPAIN;

EID: 84875732245     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211369     Document Type: Article

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