Extension of the Target Scattering Vector Model to the bistatic case

The polarimetric information has been widely used to interpret the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) scene. Hence, many decompositions have been introduced to extract polarimetric parameters with a physical meaning. Nevertheless, for most of them, the reciprocity assumption is assumed. For a bistatic PolSAR sensor, the cross-polarization terms of the scattering matrix are not equal. This paper presents a generalization of the Target Scattering Vector Model (TSVM) to the bistatic case.