Volume decorrelation effects in polarimetric SAR interferometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2467-2478

  Alberga, Vito ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetry; Target decomposition theorems; Volume decorrelation sources

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); SCATTERING MATRIX; TARGET DECOMPOSITION THEOREMS; VOLUME DECORRELATION SOURCES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 9944253325     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.837330     Document Type: Article

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