Fully polarimetric high-resolution 3-D imaging with circular SAR at L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3074-3090

  Ponce, Octavio ^a   Prats Iraola, Pau ^a   Pinheiro, Muriel ^a   Rodriguez Cassola, Marc ^a   Scheiber, Rolf ^a   Reigber, Andreas ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autofocus; circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR); fast factorized back projection (FFBP); graphics processing unit (GPU); high resolution SAR; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; POLARIMETERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SCATTERING; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTO-FOCUS; BACK-PROJECTION; CIRCULAR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (CSAR); GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRPORT; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

BAVARIA; GERMANY; KAUFBEUREN;

EID: 84896317721     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2269194     Document Type: Article

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