Investigation of the capability of H-α decomposition of compact polarimetric SAR

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 868-872

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Xie, Lei ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Wu, Fan ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Compact polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR); distribution density; dual circular polarimetric (DCP); H decomposition

Indexed keywords

COMPACT POLARIMETRIES; DISTRIBUTION CENTERS; DISTRIBUTION DENSITY; DUAL CIRCULAR POLARIMETRIC (DCP); KAPPA COEFFICIENT; OVERALL ACCURACIES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS;

POLARIMETERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84890563189     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2280456     Document Type: Article

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