Dual-polarimetric terraSAR-X SAR data for target at sea observation

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1114-1118

  Velotto, Domenico ^a   Nunziata, Ferdinando ^b   Migliaccio, Maurizio ^b   Lehner, Susanne ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

PolSAR; ship detection; symmetry

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; METALLIC TARGETS; PHYSICALLY BASED; POLSAR; PROCESSING TIME; SHIP DETECTION; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SATELLITES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84879892181     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2231048     Document Type: Article

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