Statistical tests for symmetries in polarimetric scattering coherency matrices

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 308-312

  Zwieback, Simon ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Parametric statistics; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; radar remote sensing

Indexed keywords

LIKELIHOOD-RATIO TEST; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; REFLECTION SYMMETRY; SECOND ORDER STATISTICS; STRONG DEPENDENCES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR POLARIMETRIES;

POLARIMETERS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84888300325     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2257160     Document Type: Article

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