Analysis of anisotropic behavior using sub-aperture polarimetric SAR data

Author

Ferro-Famil, L. ; Reigber, A. ; Pottier, E. ; Boerner, W.M.

Author_Institution

IETR Lab., Rennes Univ., France

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-25 July 2003

Firstpage

434

Abstract

In this paper, a fully polarimetric analysis method is introduced to decompose synthesized polarimetric images into sub-aperture data sets, which corresponds 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 the influence of azimuthal backscattering variations in conventional polarimetric SAR data analysis.

Keywords

geophysical signal processing; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; statistical analysis; synthetic aperture radar; SAR integration; anisotropic behavior; azimuthal backscattering variations; azimuthal look-angles; polarimetric analysis; polarimetric parameters; scene responses; statistical analysis; subaperture polarimetric SAR data; synthesized polarimetric image decomposition; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Azimuth; Backscatter; Electromagnetic scattering; Image resolution; Laboratories; Layout; Light scattering; Radar scattering; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003. IGARSS '03. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7929-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1293800

Filename

1293800