Title :
Polarimetric SAR processing using the polar decomposition of the scattering matrix
Author :
Carrea, Laura ; Wanielik, Gerd
Author_Institution :
Chemnitz Univ. of Technol., Germany
Abstract :
The concept of scattering is one of the mechanisms that polarimetry seeks to express through data. A multiplicative decomposition of the scattering matrix is proposed in order to try to separate different kind of scattering and the applicability to polarimetric SAR images is investigated
Keywords :
S-matrix theory; electromagnetic wave scattering; geophysical signal processing; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR images; multiplicative decomposition; polar decomposition; polarimetric SAR processing; scattering matrix; Chemical technology; Data mining; Matrix decomposition; Noise reduction; Polarimetry; Polarization; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Speckle; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7031-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976159
