A Simple RVoG Test for PolInSAR Data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1028-1040

  Ballester Berman, J David ^a   Vicente Guijalba, Fernando ^a   Lopez Sanchez, Juan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Parameter inversion; PolInSAR; RVoG model; vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; VEGETATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COHERENCY MATRIX; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; MODEL-BASED OPC; PARAMETER INVERSION; POLARIZATION STATE; POLINSAR; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 85027930972     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2379438     Document Type: Article

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