This study provides an update of the polarimetric tools currently being used for optimum
information extraction from polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The basics of …

The authors examine the role of polarimetry in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry.
They first propose a general formulation for vector wave interferometry that includes …

The objective of this paper is to assess the joint use of the magnitude and the phase of a
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetric image for point target detection and analysis. We …

This paper proposes two effective numerical methods to solve the optimal problem of
contrast enhancement for the coherent and incoherent cases, respectively. For the coherent …

The aim of this article is to present a new classification scheme for polarimetric synthetic
aperture radar (POLSAR) data by integrating image segmentation and decision tree. In the …

The theory of Lie algebras and their classification based on Dynkin diagrams is reviewed
and application of the theory to vector wave scattering and propagation is outlined. The main …

Characteristic polarization state theory is restudied for the symmetric coherent Sinclair
scattering matrix case. First, the geometric relations of the characteristic polarization states …

A new method is presented to discriminate dry snow from bare earth in alpine regions.
Because of the wide variety of alpine environments, the scene under study is first segmented …

This paper proposes two numerical methods to solve the optimal problem of contrast
enhancement in the cross-pol and co-pol channels. For the cross-pol channel case, the …

This paper presents a new method to map dry snow in Alpine areas. A supervised
discrimination algorithm, based on polarimetric contrast, is proposed to enhance multi …