Characteristic analysis of vehicle target in Quad-Pol Radarsat-2 SAR images

Radarsat-2 satellite offers general users the Quad-Pol SAR image service with a resolution of 8 meters, which provides valuable data source for the research of traffic vehicles monitoring on Quad-Pol SAR images. According to the vehicle target in such new SAR images, this paper put forward a target characteristic analysis method, which is a combination of target RCS measurement and polarization decomposition. Moreover, it choose the large trucks as an example, give out a conclusion of characteristic analysis of vehicle targets through the on-site synchronous experimental data obtained at different incident angle. Thus provides the research foundation for further exploration of realizing the traffic monitoring with space-born Quad-Pol SAR images.