Polarimetric optical techniques such as polarization microscopy or polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography normally assume that light is perpendicular to the sample surface and that fibrils of a birefringent biological tissue are arranged in a plane parallel to this surface. The approaches that describe quantitatively polarimetric data from tissues with nonparallel fibril orientatio...

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Microwave imaging techniques, particularly for synthetic aperture radar (SAR), produce high-resolution terrain surface images regardless of the weather conditions. Focusing on a feature of complex SAR images, coherent change detection (CCD) approaches have been developed in recent decades that can detect invisible changes in the same regions by applying phase interferometry to pairs of complex ...

A new technique, named DPOL MUM, is proposed for the segmentation of multi-frequency polarimetric SAR images. By following a Maximum Likelihood approach, an optimal split-merge test is derived, which fully exploits the characteristic block-diagonal structure of the data covariance matrix. This test is demonstrated to yield a reduced fluctuation error than the extension of the polarimetric test ...

Soil moisture retrieval from SAR data is not an easy task, especially in presence of vegetation cover. Accordingly, in recent years several methods for soil-moisture retrieval under vegetation cover have been developed, relying on model-based or hybrid polarimetric targetdecomposition techniques. However, most of these decomposition techniques suffer from the so-called negative-power problem, w...

Three methodologies for correcting the radar reflectivity factor (ZH) in the presence of partial beam blockage are implemented, compared, and evaluated using a polarimetric radar dataset from the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) in northwestern Mexico. One methodology uses simulated interactions between radar beams and digital terrain maps, while the other two invoke the self-consistenc...

We report the use of the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to conduct polarimetric observations of the sky at 5 GHz. The ATCA is normally operated as an interferometer array, but these observations were conducted in a split array mode in which the antenna elements were used as single-dishes with their beams staggered to simultaneously cover a wide area of sky with a resolution of 10′. Th...

The scattering properties of a radar target can only be fully characterized by measuring a scattering matrix in which the elements represent the combinations of transmit and receive polarization states. The amount of information gathered by a traditional single polarization radar may therefore be even very limited, for example when the single polarization response is near zero while the cross p...

the major problems of common classification method are their noisy outputs, computational complexity and a lack of expert knowledge in the classification process. this paper proposed an object-oriented and knowledge based method for classification of polarimetric sar data. multi resolution method was selected for image segmentation. also, the main idea to extract knowledge is to use polarimetri...

the purpose of this study is the fusion of polarimetric sar and hyperspectral images for concealed target detection in forest areas. the proposed method is using the polarimetric and the spectral signatures. a radarsat-2 image and a hyperion image of the city san francisco were chosen for evaluation of the proposed method. the four targets were selected in the forest and the outer areas. three ...