PolSAR Wet Snow Mapping with Incidence Angle Information

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2029-2033

  Usami, Naoto ^a   Muhuri, Arnab ^b   Bhattacharya, Avik ^b   Hirose, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Incidence angle; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR); quaternion neural network; snow

Indexed keywords

SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEACHING;

BARE GROUNDS; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LEARNING PROCESS; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; NONLINEAR DEPENDENCE; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; WET SNOW;

SNOW;

EID: 84996995718     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2016.2621891     Document Type: Article

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