A review of polarimetry in the context of synthetic aperture radar: Concepts and information extraction

R Touzi, WM Boerner, JS Lee… - Canadian Journal of …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
This study provides an update of the polarimetric tools currently being used for optimum
information extraction from polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The basics of …

Recent advances in extra-wide-band polarimetry, interferometry and polarimetric interferometry in synthetic aperture remote sensing and its applications

WM Boerner - IEE Proceedings-Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 2003 - IET
The development of radar polarimetry and radar interferometry is advancing rapidly, and
these novel radar technologies are revamping 'Synthetic aperture radar imaging'decisively …

Model-based six-component scattering matrix power decomposition

G Singh, Y Yamaguchi - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fully polarimetric model-based decompositions are developed by accounting for the
physical scattering model and experimental polarimetric SAR data acquisition processes …

Optimization of the degree of polarization for enhanced ship detection using polarimetric RADARSAT-2

R Touzi, J Hurley, PW Vachon - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scattered wave is represented in terms of two independent and rotation invariant
parameters: the degree of polarization (DoP) and the total scattered intensity R 0. The …

Simultaneous diagonalization of Hermitian matrices and its application in PolSAR ship detection

T Liu, Z Yang, G Gao, A Marino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A challenging issue in the field of marine remote sensing is the application of polarimetric
synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) to small ship detection in complicated environments …

Polarimetric SAR time series change analysis over agricultural areas

A Alonso González, C López Martínez… - … on geoscience and …, 2020 - upcommons.upc.edu
This article proposes a change detection and analysis technique for monitoring the
phenological development of agricultural vegetation by means of multitemporal Polarimetric …

A general framework of polarimetric detectors based on quadratic optimization

T Liu, Z Yang, G Gao, A Marino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship detection is an important task in civil or military applications and we can use
polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR). Many polarimetric detectors were proposed …

Joint polarimetric subspace detector based on modified linear discriminant analysis

T Liu, Z Yang, A Marino, G Gao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) is widely used in remote sensing and has
important applications in the detection of ships. Although many polarimetric detectors have …

Optimal polarizations for achieving maximum contrast in radar images

AA Swartz, HA Yueh, JA Kong… - … Research: Solid Earth, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
There is considerable interest in determining the optimal polarizations that maximize
contrast between two scattering classes in polarimetric radar images. In this paper a …

Basic concepts of radar polarimetry

WM Boerner, WL Yan, AQ Xi, Y Yamaguchi - Direct and Inverse Methods …, 1992 - Springer
A comprehensive overview of the basic principles of radar polarimetry is presented. The
relevant fundamental field equations are first provided in order to introduce the polarization …