Modified three-component decomposition method for polarimetric SAR data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 200-204

  Jiao, Zhihao ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Yeh, Chunmao ^a,b   Song, Jianshe ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIO MEASUREMENT   (China)

^c XI'AN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Model based polarimetric decomposition; radar polarimetry; similarity parameter; stable decomposition; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION METHODS; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SIMILARITY PARAMETER;

POLARIMETERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84888305549     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2252876     Document Type: Article

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