3 research outputs found
Improvement of PolSAR Decomposition Scattering Powers Using a Relative Decorrelation Measure
In this letter, a methodology is proposed to improve the scattering powers
obtained from model-based decomposition using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture
Radar (PolSAR) data. The novelty of this approach lies in utilizing the
intrinsic information in the off-diagonal elements of the 33 coherency
matrix represented in the form of complex correlation
coefficients. Two complex correlation coefficients are computed between
co-polarization and cross-polarization components of the Pauli scattering
vector. The difference between modulus of complex correlation coefficients
corresponding to (i.e. the degree of polarization
(DOP) optimized coherency matrix), and (original) matrices is
obtained. Then a suitable scaling is performed using fractions \emph{i.e.,}
obtained
from the diagonal elements of the matrix.
Thereafter, these new quantities are used in modifying the Yamaguchi
4-component scattering powers obtained from . To
corroborate the fact that these quantities have physical relevance, a
quantitative analysis of these for the L-band AIRSAR San Francisco and the
L-band Kyoto images is illustrated. Finally, the scattering powers obtained
from the proposed methodology are compared with the corresponding powers
obtained from the Yamaguchi \emph{et. al.,} 4-component (Y4O) decomposition and
the Yamaguchi \emph{et. al.,} 4-component Rotated (Y4R) decomposition for the
same data sets. The proportion of negative power pixels is also computed. The
results show an improvement on all these attributes by using the proposed
methodology.Comment: Accepted for publication in Remote Sensing Letter
Estimation of Snow Surface Dielectric Constant From Polarimetric SAR Data
A novel methodology is proposed in this paper for the estimation of snow surface dielectric constant from polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data. The dominant scattering-type magnitude proposed by Touzi et al. is used to characterize scattering mechanism over the snowpack. Two methods have been used to obtain the optimized degree polarization of a partially polarized wave: 1) the Touzi optimum degree of polarization given by Touzi et al. in 1992. The maximum (p(max)) and the minimum (p(min)) degree of polarizations are obtained along with the optimum transmitted polarizations (chi(opt)(t), psi(opt)(t)). 2) The adaptive generalized unitary transformation-based optimum degree of polarization m(E)(opt) proposed by Bhattacharya et al. in 2015. This optimum degree of polarization is obtained either by a real or a complex unitary transformation of the 3 x 3 coherency matrix. These two degrees of polarizations are used and compared in this study as a criterion to select the maximum number of pixels with surface dominant scattering. These pixels were then used to invert the snow surface dielectric constant. It has been observed that the m(E)(opt) have increased the number of pixels for inversion by approximate to 9-10% compared to the original data. On the other hand, it was observed that the Touzi maximum degree of polarization p(max) has increased the number of pixels for inversion by approximate to 2% compared to that of m(E)(opt). The proposed methodology is applied toRadarsat-2 PolSAR C-band datasets over the Indian Himalayan region. It is observed that the correlation coefficient between the measured and the estimated snow surface dielectric constant is 0.95 at 95% confidence interval with a root mean square error of 0.20