Recent Advances in Radar Polarimetry and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry
Abstract
The development of Radar Polarimetry and Radar Interferometry is advancing rapidly, and these novel radar technologies are revamping "Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging" decisively. In this exposition the successive advancements are sketched beginning with the fundamental formulations and high-lighting the salient points of these diverse remote sensing techniques. Whereas with radar polarimetry the textural fine-structure, target-orientation and shape, symmetries and material constituents can be recovered with considerable improvements above that of standard amplitude-only Polarization Radar, with radar interferometry the spatial (in-depth) structure can be explored. In Polarimetric-Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POL-IN-SAR) Imaging it is possible to recover such co-registered textural plus spatial properties simultaneously. This includes the extraction of Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) from either fully Polarimetric (scattering matrix) or Interferometric (dual antenna) SAR image data takes with the additional benefit of obtaining co-registered three-dimensional POL-IN-DEM information.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA437505
Entities
People
- Wolfgang-martin Boerner
Organizations
- University of Illinois at Chicago