Incoherent Target Scattering Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Data Based on Vector Model Roll-Invariant Parameters

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 4392-4401

  Aghababaee, Hossein ^a   Sahebi, Mahmod Reza ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cameron's classification; polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images; symmetric scattering components; target scattering decomposition; target scattering vector model (TSVM)

Indexed keywords

COHERENT SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTORS;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIZATION ELLIPSE; SYMMETRIC COMPONENTS; TARGET DECOMPOSITION; TARGET SCATTERING DECOMPOSITION; TARGET SCATTERING VECTOR MODELS; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE;

INCOHERENT SCATTERING;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ELLIPSE; ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION; SCATTERING; SYMMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARIZONA; CAMERON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84992307677     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2540807     Document Type: Article

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