Model-Based Target Scattering Decomposition of Polarimetric SAR Tomography

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 972-983

  Aghababaee, Hossein ^a   Sahebi, Mahmod Reza ^a  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); target scattering decomposition; tomography; vertical forest structure

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT SCATTERING; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SCATTERING; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETER RETRIEVALS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; FOREST STRUCTURE; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; MATRIX DECOMPOSITION; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING MECHANISM; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TARGET SCATTERING DECOMPOSITION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOPHYSICS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MODEL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SCATTERING; STAND STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 85032183180     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2757062     Document Type: Article

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