A polarimetric decomposition method for ice in the bohai sea using C-band PolSAR data

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

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 47-66

  Zhang, Xi ^a   Dierking, Wolfgang ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a   Meng, Junmin ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polarimetric radar; scattering; sea ice; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

MARINE RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OFFSHORE EXPLORATION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC RADARS; POLARIZATION DATA; REFRACTION EFFECTS; RESIDUAL COMPONENTS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS;

ICE;

ICE COVER; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTERING; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOHAI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 85027956725     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2356552     Document Type: Article

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