• DocumentCode
    2198286
  • Title

    Glacier surface velocity measure based on polarimetric tracking

  • Author

    Erten, Esra ; Chesnokova, Olga ; Hajnsek, Irena ; Reigber, Andreas ; Ferro-Famil, Laurent

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Geomatic Eng., Istanbul Tech. Univ. (ITU), Istanbul, Turkey
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    22-27 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    3126
  • Lastpage
    3129
  • Abstract
    The contribution of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images compared with the single-channel SAR in terms of temporal scene characterization has been found and described to add valuable information in the literature. Recently, a new PolSAR tracking algorithm has been proposed for glacier surface velocity monitoring. The proposed polarimetric tracking method applies Mutual Information (MI) to measure the statistical dependence between temporal polarimetric images, which is assumed to be maximum if the images are geometrically aligned. In this paper, its implementation of interest will be investigated.
  • Keywords
    geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; glaciology; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; PolSAR tracking algorithm; glacier surface velocity monitoring; mutual information; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images; polarimetric tracking method; single-channel SAR; statistical dependence; temporal polarimetric images; temporal scene characterization; Covariance matrix; L-band; Monitoring; Radar tracking; Synthetic aperture radar; Vectors; Velocity measurement; Glacier monitoring; Mutual Information; Polarimetry; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); cryosphere;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Munich
  • ISSN
    2153-6996
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1160-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2153-6996
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350763
  • Filename
    6350763