A review of target decomposition theorems in radar polarimetry

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

• Publication date

  1996-03-01

• Fields of study

  Physics, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/36.485127
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