Publications of Thomas L. Ainsworth

Articles in journal or book chapters

1. Jong-Sen Lee, Jen-Hung Wen, T.L. Ainsworth, Kun-Shan Chen, and A.J. Chen. Improved Sigma Filter for Speckle Filtering of SAR Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(1):202-213, January 2009. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



2. Jong-Sen Lee, T.L. Ainsworth, J.P. Kelly, and C. Lopez-Martinez. Evaluation and Bias Removal of Multilook Effect on Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy in Polarimetric SAR Decomposition. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 46(10):3039-3052, Oct. 2008. Keyword(s): Monte Carlo methods, geophysical techniques, radar interferometry, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, vegetationGerman Aerospace Research Center, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, L-band Advanced Land Observing Satellite, Monte Carlo simulation, airborne X-band polarimetric SAR, airborne interferometric SAR, alpha estimation, anisotropy estimation, bias removal algorithm, entropy estimation, forest, geophysical parameter estimation, grassland, multilook processing, phased array type L-band SAR, polarimetric SAR decomposition, scattering mechanisms, urban returns. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



3. Thomas L. Ainsworth, Laurent Ferro-Famil, and Jong-Sen Lee. Orientation angle preserving a posteriori polarimetric SAR calibration. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 44(4):994-1003, April 2006. Keyword(s): SAR Processing, Polarimetry, Polarimetric Calibration, calibration, radar polarimetrybackscatter, calibration, covariance matrices, geophysical techniques, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, SAR data analysis, a posteriori polarimetric SAR calibration, anechoic chamber data, orientation angle, polarimetric channels, polarimetric covariance matrix, polarimetric distortion, polarimetric fidelity, polarimetric synthetic aperture radar, radar polarimetry, scattering reciprocity, Calibration, Costs, Covariance matrix, Data analysis, Equations, Parameter estimation, Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar, Radar scattering, Soil moisture, Synthetic aperture radar, Calibration, radar polarimetry. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



4. Jong-Sen Lee, D.L. Schuler, and T.L. Ainsworth. Polarimetric SAR data compensation for terrain azimuth slope. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 38(5):2153-2163, 2000. Keyword(s): geophysical techniques, radar imaging, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, terrain mapping, POLSAR, azimuth slope variation, data compensation, effective scattering pixel area, geophysical measurement technique, land surface, polarimetric SAR, polarization, radar cross section, radar remote sensing, radiometric slope correction. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]



5. Jong-Sen Lee, M.R. Grunes, T.L. Ainsworth, Li-Jen Du, D.L. Schuler, and Shane R. Cloude. Unsupervised classification using polarimetric decomposition and the complex Wishart classifier. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 37(5):2249-2258, September 1999. Keyword(s): geophysical signal processing, geophysical techniques, image classification, radar imaging, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, synthetic aperture radar, terrain mappingSAR, complex Wishart classifier, complex Wishart distribution, covariance matrix, entropy-alpha plane, geophysical measurement technique, initial classification map, iteration, land surface, man-made object, maximum likelihood classifier, polarimetric decomposition, polarimetric target decomposition, polarization, radar remote sensing, terrain mapping, terrain type, training, unsupervised classification. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

Conference articles

1. J.S. Lee, D.L. Schuler, T.L. Ainsworth, and W.-M. Boerner. Polarization orientation estimation and applications: a review. In IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03., volume 1, pages 428-430, July 2003. Keyword(s): SAR Processsing, calibration, covariance matrices, data acquisition, radar polarimetry, remote sensing by radar, spaceborne radar, synthetic aperture radar, terrain mapping DEM generation, AIRSAR, L-band, polarimetric SAR images, P-band, SIR-C, circular polarization covariance matrix, estimation algorithms, ocean surface feature characterization, polarimetric SAR data compensation, polarimetric calibration, polarization orientation angle shifts, polarization orientation estimation, radar frequency, scattering media, terrain slopes, Airborne SAR. [Abstract] [bibtex-entry]

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