Techniques were implemented to extract anthropogenic features in the desert region of North Sinai using data from the firstand second-generation Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR-1 and 2). To obtain a synoptic view over the study area, a mosaic of average, multitemporal (De Grandi) filtered PALSAR-1 σ◦ backscatter of North Sinai was produced. Two subset regions were sele...

Soil salinization is one of the most widespread soil degradation processes on Earth, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. The salinized soil in arid to semi-arid Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China accounts for 31% of the area of cultivated land, and thus it is pivotal for the sustainable agricultural development of the area to identify reliable and cost-effective methodologies to mon...

L-Band SAR, like that on the JAXA’s ALOS PALSAR instrument, is much more susceptible to ionospheric effects than other space based SAR missions, mainly operating in C-band or X-Band. While single-band attenuation of instruments such as the single-polarization JERS-1 SAR instrument certainly occurred, it was rarely noted. With the advent of fulland dual-polarization (full-pol and dual-pol) instr...

In this paper we develop a new statistical test to determine whether quad or dual (including compact) polarisation modes are best for use in low frequency SAR applications. We first consider a general formulation of dual/compact modes and use it to expose a fundamental weakness in compact reconstruction algorithms. We then show how all dualpol scattering problems can effectively be localised ge...