Topography retrieval from single-pass POLSAR data based on the polarization-dependent intensity ratio

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3160-3177

  Li, Yang ^a   Hong, Wen ^a   Pottier, Eric ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Full multigrid (FMG); Lambertian model; polarimetric orientation angle (POA); polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR); topography; scattering angle

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL RADIO; IMAGE MATCHING; LANDFORMS; NASA; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

LAMBERTIAN MODEL; MULTI-GRID; ORIENTATION ANGLES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SCATTERING ANGLES;

SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RELIEF; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 85027923126     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2369481     Document Type: Article

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