ALOS-PALSAR Quad. Pol. images and their applications

Author

Yamaguchi, Yoshio ; Boerner, Wolfgang M. ; Yang, Jian ; Sato, Ryoichi ; Yamada, Hiroyoshi

Author_Institution

Niigata Univ., Niigata, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

26-30 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

755

Lastpage

758

Abstract

The four-component scattering power decomposition is applied to ALOS-PALSAR Quad. Pol. Data sets. PALSAR is Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar onboard ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) launched by JAXA, Japan, in 2006. It has acquired more than 10000 fully polarimetric scenes although the polarimetric mode is experimental one. This paper presents some of scenes in Sichuan earthquake area to see how polarimetric data works and to show the effectiveness and usefulness of fully polarimetric data.

Keywords

phased array radar; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; ALOS-PALSAR Quad. Pol. images; JAXA; Japan; Sichuan earthquake area; advanced land observing satellite; four-component scattering power decomposition; phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar; polarimetric data; Earthquakes; L-band; Layout; Matrix decomposition; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Phased arrays; Radar scattering; Satellites; Synthetic aperture radar; ALOS-PALSAR; polarimetry; scattering power decomposition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2009. APSAR 2009. 2nd Asian-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Xian, Shanxi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2731-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2732-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APSAR.2009.5374213

Filename

5374213