Mapping and monitoring flooded vegetation and soil moisture using simulated compact polarimetry

This paper shows that the m-chi decomposition, the Shannon-Entropy model and the Wishart-Chernoff distance can be used to map and monitor wetlands. Areas which changed from flooded vegetation to non-flooded vegetation were accurately mapped using the m-chi decomposition, and areas that changed from saturated soil to unsaturated soil were visible with the Shannon-Entropy model. In addition, the Wishart-Chernoff distance was able to map wetland areas which had changed to a different land cover type over time.