Use of polarization synthesis from polarimetric SAR data for roughness estimation over bare fields

Conference Paper
Publication Date:
1996
abstract:
Polarimetric SAR data acquired during the first and second SIR-C/X SAR mission over bare soils located at Les Landes (France) and Matera (Italy) test areas, are exploited in order to investigate the antenna polarization effect on polarimetric surface roughness discriminators. Among quantities under consideration, the copolarized correlation coefficient in circular polarization shows the best sensitivity to surface roughness.
Iris type:
04.01 Contributo in Atti di convegno
Keywords:
Antennas; Correlation methods; Data acquisition; Data reduction; Discriminators; Estimation; Polarimeters; Polarization; Soils; Surface roughness; Backscattering polarimetric signatures; Circular polarization; Copolarized correlation coefficient; Polarization synthesis; Synthetic aperture radar
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Handle:
https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/217847
Book title:
igarss96