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http://dx.doi.org/10.7780/kjrs.2010.26.1.1

New Simple Decomposition Technique for Polarimetric SAR Images  

Lee, Kyung-Yup (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
Oh, Yi-Sok (Department of Electronic Information and Communication Engineering, Hongik University)
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Korean Journal of Remote Sensing / v.26, no.1, 2010 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a new decomposition technique for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. This new decomposition technique is based on the degree of polarization (DoP) and co-polarized phase-difference (CPD) of the measured polarimetric backscattering coefficients. This decomposition technique is compared with the existing three- and four-component decomposition techniques with the ALOS PALSAR full polarimetric L-band data acquired in 2009. It is shown that the new decomposition technique is better or comparable to the existing techniques for the study areas such as sea, bare soil, forest, and urban area.
Keywords
decomposition; SAR image classification technique; degree of polarization; copolarized phase difference;
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