Determining the Points of Change in Time Series of Polarimetric SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3007-3024

  Conradsen, Knut ^a   Nielsen, Allan Aasbjerg ^a   Skriver, Henning ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Complex covariance matrix test statistic; complex Wishart distribution; dual polarization; EMISAR; full polarization; multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data; omnibus test statistic; quad polarization; remote sensing change detection

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; FACTORIZATION; POLARIMETERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES;

COVARIANCE MATRICES; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; SAR DATA; SUB-AREAS; TEST STATISTICS; TIME POINTS; VEGETATION TYPE;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 84957671157     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2510160     Document Type: Article

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