Identification of coherent scatterers in SAR images based on the analysis of polarimetric signatures

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 783-787

  Strzelczyk, Jacek ^a   Porzycka Strzelczyk, Stanislawa ^a  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coherent scatterers (CSs); polarimetric signatures; radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL OBJECTS; COHERENT SCATTERERS; METHOD OF IDENTIFICATIONS; POINT SCATTERERS; POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SIGNATURE ANALYSIS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SCATTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84890565562     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2279005     Document Type: Article

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