A physical approach for SAR speckle simulation: First results

European Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 823-836

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

SAR simulation; Speckle; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING; SIMULATORS; SPECKLE;

EQUIVALENT SCATTERERS; FULLY DEVELOPED SPECKLES; GLOBAL STATISTICS; PHYSICAL APPROACHES; SAR SIMULATION; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SPECKLE STATISTICS; SURFACE PARAMETER;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; RESOLUTION; SPECKLE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84890331403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22797254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5721/EuJRS20134649     Document Type: Article

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