On the Estimation of Ground and Volume Polarimetric Covariances in Forest Scenarios with SAR Tomography

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1860-1864

  Pardini, Matteo ^a   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest; ground topography; interferometry; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomography

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

CAPON BEAMFORMER; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FOREST; INTRINSIC AMBIGUITIES; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR TOMOGRAPHIES; TEMPERATE FORESTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85028710281     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2017.2738672     Document Type: Article

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