Scattering mechanism extraction by a modified Cloude-Pottier decomposition for dual polarization SAR

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7447-7470

  Ji, Kefeng ^a   Wu, Yonghui ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan Early Warning Academy   (China)

Author keywords

Dual polarization; Polarimetry; Scattering mechanism; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Target decomposition

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR;

CROSS POLARIZATIONS; DUAL-POLARIZATION SAR; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; FULL POLARIZATION SAR; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POTTIER DECOMPOSITION; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; TARGET DECOMPOSITION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84933503048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70607447     Document Type: Article

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