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Advanced Polarimetric Target Decomposition

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Target Scattering Mechanism in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar

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In past decades, many scientists and researchers have been involved in the field of interpreting scattering mechanisms presenting in PolSAR data. Polarimetric target decomposition has become one of the most powerful and the most popularly used techniques.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environment Effects on Electronics and Information System, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Si-Wei Chen & Shun-Ping Xiao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Complex Electromagnetic Environment Effects on Electronics and Information System, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Xue-Song Wang

  3. Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Motoyuki Sato

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Chen, SW., Wang, XS., Xiao, SP., Sato, M. (2018). Advanced Polarimetric Target Decomposition. In: Target Scattering Mechanism in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7269-7_2

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