Polarimetric Radar Imaging
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Polarimetric Radar Imaging

From Basics to Applications

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eBook - ePub

Polarimetric Radar Imaging

From Basics to Applications

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The recent launches of three fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) satellites have shown that polarimetric radar imaging can provide abundant data on the Earth's environment, such as biomass and forest height estimation, snow cover mapping, glacier monitoring, and damage assessment. Written by two of the most recognized leaders in this field, Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications presents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using PolSAR imaging radar.

The book provides a substantial and balanced introduction to the basic theory and advanced concepts of polarimetric scattering mechanisms, speckle statistics and speckle filtering, polarimetric information analysis and extraction techniques, and applications typical to radar polarimetric remote sensing. It explains the importance of wave polarization theory and the speckle phenomenon in the information retrieval problem of microwave imaging and inverse scattering. The authors demonstrate how to devise intelligent information extraction algorithms for remote sensing applications. They also describe more advanced polarimetric analysis techniques for polarimetric target decompositions, polarization orientation effects, polarimetric scattering modeling, speckle filtering, terrain and forest classification, manmade target analysis, and PolSAR interferometry.

With sample PolSAR data sets and software available for download, this self-contained, hands-on book encourages you to analyze space-borne and airborne PolSAR and polarimetric interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) data and then develop applications using this data.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781351835220
Edition
1
Topic
Tecnología e ingeniería
Subtopic
Ingeniería eléctrica y telecomunicaciones

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Authors
  9. Chapter 1 Overview of Polarimetric Radar Imaging
  10. Chapter 2 Electromagnetic Vector Wave and Polarization Descriptors
  11. Chapter 3 Electromagnetic Vector Scattering Operators
  12. Chapter 4 Polarimetric SAR Speckle Statistics
  13. Chapter 5 Polarimetric SAR Speckle Filtering
  14. Chapter 6 Introduction to the Polarimetric Target Decomposition Concept
  15. Chapter 7 H/A/α Polarimetric Decomposition Theorem
  16. Chapter 8 PolSAR Terrain and Land-Use Classification
  17. Chapter 9 Pol-InSAR Forest Mapping and Classification
  18. Chapter 10 Selected Polarimetric SAR Applications
  19. Appendix A: Eigen Characteristics of Hermitian Matrix
  20. Appendix B: PolSARpro Software: The Polarimetric SAR Data Processing and Educational Toolbox
  21. Index