On the use of generalized volume scattering models for the improvement of general polarimetric model-based decomposition

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Xie, Qinghua ^a,b   Ballester Berman, J David ^b   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^b   Zhu, Jianjun ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Generalized volume scattering model; Model based decomposition; Monte Carlo simulation; Radar polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADAPTIVE VOLUME SCATTERING MODELS; COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS; MODEL BASED DECOMPOSITIONS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETRIC INFORMATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RADAR POLARIMETRY; VOLUME SCATTERING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 85013647809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs90201017     Document Type: Article

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