[BOOK][B] Polarimetric radar imaging: from basics to applications

JS Lee, E Pottier - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
The recent launches of three fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) satellites
have shown that polarimetric radar imaging can provide abundant data on the Earth's …

A review of polarimetry in the context of synthetic aperture radar: Concepts and information extraction

R Touzi, WM Boerner, JS Lee… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
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 European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

S Quegan, T Le Toan, J Chave, J Dall… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The primary objective of the European Space Agency's 7th Earth Explorer mission,
BIOMASS, is to determine the worldwide distribution of forest above-ground biomass (AGB) …

Hybrid-polarity SAR architecture

RK Raney - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) often is constrained to transmit only one polarization.
Within this constraint, two aggressive measurement objectives are 1) full characterization …

Unsupervised terrain classification preserving polarimetric scattering characteristics

JS Lee, MR Grunes, E Pottier… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we proposed an unsupervised terrain and land-use classification algorithm
using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar data. Unlike other algorithms that classify pixels …

Inversion of surface parameters from polarimetric SAR

I Hajnsek, E Pottier, SR Cloude - IEEE Transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proposes a new model for the inversion of surface roughness and soil moisture from
polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, based on the eigenvalues and …

Target scattering decomposition in terms of roll-invariant target parameters

R Touzi - IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Kennaugh-Huynen scattering matrix con-diagonalization is projected into the Pauli
basis to derive a new scattering vector model for the representation of coherent target …

Significance of dual polarimetric synthetic aperture radar in biomass retrieval: An attempt on Sentinel-1

S Periasamy - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
The study investigates the suitability of Sentinel-1 data product of C-band frequency (5.36
GHz) in the estimation of terrestrial biomass. The experiment was carried out in the …

Three-component model-based decomposition for polarimetric SAR data

W An, Y Cui, J Yang - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An improved three-component decomposition for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
data is proposed in this paper. The reasons for the emergence of negative powers in the …

A two-stage method for ship detection using PolSAR image

T Zhang, S Quan, Z Yang, W Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship detection using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) images has recently
been an active topic in the Earth observation field, in which how to detect small ships is an …