A new polarimetric change detector in radar imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2986-3000

  Marino, Armando ^a   Cloude, Shane R ^b   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AEL Consultants   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Change detection; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; CHANGE DETECTION; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DETECTOR PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; PHYSICAL FEASIBILITY; POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LAND USE; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR; VECTOR SPACES;

POLARIMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; EIGENVALUE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; LAND USE CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR IMAGERY; RADARSAT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRASAR-X;

EID: 84880289362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211883     Document Type: Article

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