A Novel Deorientation Method for PolSAR Data Processing

Conference: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/06/2016 - 06/09/2016 at Hamburg, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2016

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zhu, Feiya; Zhang, Yunhua; Li, Dong (Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Abstract:
In PolSAR data processing, deorientation operation is often necessary. The existing deorientation method uniformly deorients all the sub-scatterers of a resolution cell with one orientation angle. For high entropy situation, the sub-scatterers have diverse OAs, and the effect of the existing method is unsatisfactory. A novel deorientation method is proposed to well treat the high entropy situation. Cloude’s eigen-decomposition to the coherency matrix is first carried out. The three eigenvectors are then separately deoriented with their own orientation angles. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method is suitable for extraction of urban regions, especially for extraction of oriented urban regions.