Entropy-based statistical analysis of PolSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3733-3743

  Frery, Alejandro C ^a   Cintra, Renato J ^b   Nascimento, Abraao D C ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Contrast measures; information theory; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; COHERENT ILLUMINATION; COMPLEX WISHART DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTRAST MEASURES; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR POLARIMETRIES;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; INFORMATION THEORY; POLARIMETERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATABASE; ENTROPY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NOISE; RADAR IMAGERY; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84878124938     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2222029     Document Type: Article

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