Multi-frequency polarimetric SAR data analysis of ocean surface features

Author

Ainsworth, T.L. ; Lee, J.S. ; Schuler, D.L.

Author_Institution

Remote Sensing Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1113

Abstract

Fully polarimetric SAR data analysis has found wide application for terrain classification, land-use, soil moisture and ground cover classification. New methods and algorithms for extracting geophysical parameters from polarimetric data continue to be developed and tested. Many of these methods are designed for specific environments and/or a particular target-type. The authors present general techniques for analysis of polarimetric SAR data. They illustrate these techniques with SIR-C full polarimetric data at L- and C-band

Keywords

ocean waves; oceanographic techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; C-band; L-band; SIR-C; measurement technique; multifrequency radar; ocean surface feature; ocean wave; polarimetric SAR; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; sea surface; synthetic aperture radar; Covariance matrix; Data analysis; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Entropy; Matrix decomposition; Oceans; Polarization; Radar scattering; Rough surfaces; Sea surface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858039

Filename

858039