Preliminary result of polarization property analysis using fully polarimetric GB-SAR images

Author

Kang, Moon-Kyung ; Kim, Kwang-Eun ; Lee, Hoonyol ; Cho, Seong-Jun ; Lee, Jae-Hee

Author_Institution

Korea Inst. of Geosci. & Miner. Resources, Daejeon, South Korea

fYear

2010

fDate

25-30 July 2010

Firstpage

4019

Lastpage

4022

Abstract

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) and Kangwon National University (KNU) ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR) team has been developed a fully polarimetric and interferometric GB-SAR system over past several years. The objective of this paper is to investigate an application of the obtained fully polarimetric GB-SAR images and an effective polarimetric analysis method to extract polarization properties from different terrain targets as a preliminary study. We utilized an unsupervised classification method for analyzing of a fully polarimetric GB-SAR image, in particular, Cloude and Pottier´s method and a combined H/A/α_ and the complex Wishart classifier method based on the H/A/α_ polarimetric decomposition theorem.

Keywords

radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; Kangwon National University; Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources; Wishart classifier method; ground based synthetic aperture radar; polarimetric GB SAR image; polarimetric decomposition theorem; polarization property analysis; unsupervised classification method; Classification algorithms; Classification tree analysis; Image color analysis; Image segmentation; Monitoring; Scattering; Speckle; GB-SAR; H/A/α_ polarimetric decomposition; fully polarimetric SAR; polarimetric property;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9565-8

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5650762

Filename

5650762