Assessment and estimation of the RVoG model in polarimetric SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3091-3106

  López Martínez, Carlos ^a   Alonso González, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Affine transform (AT); forestry; maximum likelihood (ML); polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PolInSAR); SAR interferometry; SAR polarimetry

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SCATTERING;

COMPLEX GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; COVARIANCE MATRICES; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR POLARIMETRY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SCATTERING; POLARIMETRY; SATELLITES;

EID: 84896315635     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2269614     Document Type: Article

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