Angle independence properties of fractal dimension maps estimated from SAR data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1242-1253

  Di Martino, Gerardo ^a   Iodice, Antonio ^a   Riccio, Daniele ^a   Ruello, Giuseppe ^a   Zinno, Ivana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; fractals; rough surfaces; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FRACTAL DIMENSION MAPS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; INDEPENDENCE PROPERTIES; OPERATIONAL MODES; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; ROUGH SURFACES; URBAN SCENARIOS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTALS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SCATTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880313289     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2248134     Document Type: Article

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