DocumentCode
2092684
Title
Polarimetric SAR processing using the polar decomposition of the scattering matrix
Author
Carrea, Laura ; Wanielik, Gerd
Author_Institution
Chemnitz Univ. of Technol., Germany
Volume
1
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
363
Abstract
The concept of scattering is one of the mechanisms that polarimetry seeks to express through data. A multiplicative decomposition of the scattering matrix is proposed in order to try to separate different kind of scattering and the applicability to polarimetric SAR images is investigated
Keywords
S-matrix theory; electromagnetic wave scattering; geophysical signal processing; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; SAR images; multiplicative decomposition; polar decomposition; polarimetric SAR processing; scattering matrix; Chemical technology; Data mining; Matrix decomposition; Noise reduction; Polarimetry; Polarization; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Speckle; Visualization;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International
Conference_Location
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7031-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2001.976159
Filename
976159
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