Adaptive model-based polarimetric decomposition using polinsar coherence

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1705-1718

  Chen, Si Wei ^a,b   Wang, Xue Song ^a   Li, Yong Zhen ^a   Sato, Motoyuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; dynamic range; interferometry; model based decomposition; polarimetry; repeat pass; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DECOMPOSITION; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; DECOMPOSITION PERFORMANCE; DYNAMIC RANGE; LIMITED DYNAMIC RANGES; MODEL-BASED DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REPEAT PASS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ALOS; BASELINE CONDITIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PALSAR; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING; VOLUME;

FORESTRY; RADAR;

EID: 84891559089     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2253780     Document Type: Article

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