A high-frequency multipeak model for wide-angle SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4279-4291

  Fuller, Dane F ^a   Saville, Michael A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed scatterer model; joint frequency polarization scatter classification; parametric scattering model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wide angle SAR

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE FUNCTIONS; CANONICAL SCATTERERS; DISTRIBUTED SCATTERERS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; PARAMETRIC SCATTERING; PROCESSING CONDITION; SCATTERING CENTERS; WIDE-ANGLE SAR;

IMAGE PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIXELS; SCATTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMPLITUDE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PIXEL; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880053779     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2226732     Document Type: Article

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