Polarimetric SAR image decomposition using the degree of polarization and the co-polarized phase difference

Author

Shin, Jong-Chul ; Oh, Yisok ; Lee, Kyung-Yup

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Inf. & Commun. Eng., Hongik Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a new decomposition technique for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images using the degree of polarization (DoP) and the co-polarized phase difference (CPD). The DoP and CPD represent scattering characteristics. This decomposition technique is verified with L-band ALOS PALSAR polarimetric data taken over one area of Korea. Furthermore, the results of this decomposition are compared with the existing three - and four-component decomposition techniques. The DoP-CPD decomposition agrees quite well with three - and four-component decomposition techniques.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; electromagnetic wave scattering; geophysical image processing; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; DoP-CPD decomposition; L-band ALOS PALSAR polarimetric data; copolarized phase difference; degree of polarization; four-component decomposition technique; polarimetric SAR image decomposition; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar images; scattering characteristics; three-component decomposition technique; Buildings; Covariance matrix; Image color analysis; Matrix decomposition; Scattering; Stokes parameters; Vegetation mapping; Polarimetric SAR; co-polarized phase difference; degree of polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2011 3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1351-4

Type

conf

Filename

6087038