ALOS PALSAR fully polarimetric scattering power images over Taiwan

Author

Yamaguchi, Yoshio ; Singh, Gagan ; Yi Cui ; Tzu Yu Cheng ; Chu, Bryan Chiyuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Niigata Univ., Niigata, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

68

Abstract

Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) has acquired 23 fully polarimetric data sets over Taiwan during its operational period 20081115-20110420. This paper presents the scattering power decomposition images using the existing Y4R and GU4 algorithms. It is shown that land covers are precisely imaged with RGB color code indicating R: the double bounce scattering, G: the volume scattering, and B: the surface scattering, which can be useful to monitor the environment.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave scattering; phased array radar; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; ALOS PALSAR fully polarimetric scattering power images; Taiwan; advanced land observing satellite; double bounce scattering; phased array L-band synthetic aperture radar; scattering power decomposition images; surface scattering; volume scattering; Brightness; Color; Image color analysis; Matrix decomposition; Monitoring; Scattering; Synthetic aperture radar; ALOS-PALSAR; SAR polarimetry; monitoring; scattering power decomposition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISANP.2014.7026533

Filename

7026533