X-band 30 cm resolution fully polarimetric SAR images obtained by Pi-SAR2

Author

Yamaguchi, Y. ; Singh, G. ; Kojima, S. ; Satake, M. ; Inami, M. ; Park, S. ; Cui, Y. ; Yamada, H. ; Sato, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Niigata Univ., Niigata, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

This paper presents very high resolution (30 cm) and fully polarimetric images acquired with a new airborne Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar 2 (Pi-SAR2) system operating at the X-band. Pi-SAR2 is a successive version of the former X-band Pi-SAR aiming at exploring the possibility of fully polarimetric SAR. In collaborative works among NICT and research institutions in Japan, data acquisition flights over Niigata have been carried out on August 25 and November 17, 2013. Some imaging results with interesting phenomena are shown using polarimetric scattering power decomposition.

Keywords

airborne radar; data acquisition; geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; AD 2013 08 25 to 11 17; Japan; NICT; Niigata; Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar 2; X-band 30 CM resolution fully polarimetric SAR image; airborne Pi-SAR2 system operation; data acquisition flight; fully polarimetric image; polarimetric scattering power decomposition; research institution; successive X-band Pi-SAR version; very high resolution polarimetric image; Image color analysis; Image resolution; Matrix decomposition; Rain; Scattering; Synthetic aperture radar; G4U; Pi-SAR2; decomposition; polarimetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946350

Filename

6946350