Averaged stokes vector based polarimetric SAR data interpretation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4536-4547

  Shang, Fang ^a,b   Hirose, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data interpretation; polarimetric SAR (PolSAR); Stokes vector

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETERS; VECTORS;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; DATA INTERPRETATION; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; STOKES VECTOR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS; BACKSCATTER; BRIDGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MANMADE STRUCTURE; PALSAR; SKEWNESS; STOKES FORMULA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VECTOR;

EID: 85027937125     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2401043     Document Type: Article

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