This report presents the polarimetric calibration results of ALOS/PALSAR and discusses a stability of polarimetric calibration parameters during the calibration phase of ALOS and an influence of Faraday rotation on them. PALSAR is the first spaceborne polarimetric L-band synthetic aperture radar and its polarimetric data is expected to be utilized in various remote sensing applications. However...

This study comes within the framework of the global cartography and inventory of the Polynesian landscape. An AIRSAR airborne acquired fully polarimetric data in L band, in August 2000, over the main Polynesian Islands. This study focuses on Tubuai Island, where several ground surveys allow the validation of the different results. While they preserve some of the polarimetric information as thos...

In this paper, the subsidence monitoring activity that the Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSLab) of the Technical University of Catalonia is carrying out in the village of Sallent in the center of Catalonia (Spain) is presented. Polarimetric data have been monthly acquired since June 2006 using a groundbased SAR sensor at X-Band. A detailed description of the deformation phenomenon and of the on-go...

In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the parameter inversion provided by general polarimetric model-based decomposition methods from the perspective of a quantitative application. The general model and algorithm we have studied is the method proposed recently by Chen et al., which makes use of the complete polarimetric information and outperforms traditional decomposition methods in term...

A data-driven approach to the classification of hydrometeors from measurements collected with polarimetric weather radars is proposed. In a first step, the optimal number of hydrometeor classes (nopt) that can be reliably identified from a large set of polarimetric data is determined. This is done by means of an unsupervised clustering technique guided by criteria related both to data similarit...

In the present study evaluation of L-band SAR data at different polarization combinations in linear, circular as well as hybrid polarimetric imaging modes for crop and other landuse classifications has been carried out. Full-polarimetric radar data contains all the scattering information for any arbitrary polarization state, hence data of any combination of transmit and receive polarizations ca...

The Advanced Detection Technology Sensor can detect, discriminate, and classify stationary ground targets—during the day or night—even through cloud cover, fog, smoke, dust, or rain. The sensor is a coherent, fully polarimetric, 35-GHz syntheticaperture radar (SAR) with a resolution of 1 ft × 1 ft. And, to minimize SAR speckle while preserving image resolution, it uses the polarimetric whitenin...

A polarimetric coherent Time-Frequency (TF) decomposition approach for ship detection is proposed in this paper. At first, the PolSAR data are decomposed in azimuth direction, range direction only or in both directions. Then a novel statistical descriptor called polarimetric TF coherence indicator, is applied to detect maritime targets in different environments. By using polarimetric RadarSat2 ...

This paper presents time-transient polarimetric analysis for a simplified bridge model on water Surface. We extend our previous 2D time-transient analysis to 3D polarimetric scattering problem. Here the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is utilized. In addition to the time-transient feature, we focus on the generating mechanism of the volume scattering component with increase of the s...

In this paper, a fully polarimetric analysis method is introduced to decompose synthesized SAR images into subaperture data sets, which correspond to the scene responses under different azimuthal look-angles. A statistical analysis of polarimetric parameters permits to clearly discriminate media showing a non-stationary behavior during the SAR integration. A method is proposed, which eliminates...