The Problem of Partial Coherence and Partial Polarization in Polarimetric SAR Interferometry

Konferenz: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
23.04.2012 - 26.04.2012 in Nuremberg, Germany

Tagungsband: EUSAR 2012

Seiten: 3Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Alvarez-Perez, Jose Luis (Dpto. of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Alcalá, Spain)

Inhalt:
The difference between partial coherence of an electromagnetic beam and its partial polarization state is a controversial issue that has again aroused interest [1] after some decades of relative consensus. Recently, and in the area of radar remote sensing, it has been the subject of study by the author of this paper in [2]. In [2], this distinction, together with the analysis of the meaning of statistical independence of different scatterers in a SAR image, was used to examine the well-known polarimetric theory (PolSAR) developed by Cloude and Pottier. In the present work, we focus our attention on the consequences of this distinction for polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR).