Dual-polarimetric Cosmo/Skymed SAR data for sea monitoring

Author

Dellepiane, Silvana ; Angiati, Elena ; Cianci, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Naval, Electr., Electron., & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

12-14 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

348

Abstract

This paper presents a study on sea monitoring using remote sensing data. Dual-Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, acquired by COSMO-SkyMed satellites, are analyzed. A dataset of eight images acquired over Tyrrhenian Sea near Rome are used for the experiments. After a preliminary statistical analysis, an example of fast data-fusion and display is presented, able to visually enhance the added value of polarimetric couples in the analysis of marine phenomena. This work is framed in the context of the project “Development of Imaging and Monitoring Methodologies based on the use of COSMO-Skymed SAR Data - ID 2246”, funded by the Italian Space Agency.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; image fusion; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; COSMO-SkyMed satellites; Italian Space Agency; Tyrrhenian sea; dual-polarimetric Cosmo-Skymed SAR data; dual-polarimetric SAR images; fast data-fusion; marine phenomena; remote sensing data; sea monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; Backscatter; Marine vehicles; Monitoring; Rain; Scattering; Sea surface; Synthetic aperture radar; Cosmo/Skymed; Data fusion; Sea monitoring; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Radar and Remote Sensing (TyWRRS), 2012 Tyrrhenian Workshop on

Conference_Location

Naples

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2443-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TyWRRS.2012.6381153

Filename

6381153