In this study the sensitivity of COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) dual-polarimetric HH/VV Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data with respect to sea, vegetated and urban areas is investigated. A dual polarimetric feature, namely the complex correlation between the co-polarized channels, is introduced to exploit the inherent peculiarities of the CSK incoherent dual-polarization PingPong mode for distinguishing the three scenarios. The dual-pol feature is contrasted with the correlation between the HH and VV amplitudes, the co-polarized ratio and with conventional single-pol ones, namely the HH and the VV intensity.
COSMO-SkyMed HH/VV PingPong mode SAR data to discriminate among sea, urban and vegetated areas / Migliaccio, Maurizio; Mascolo, L.; Nunziata, Ferdinando; Mazzarella, G.; Sarti, M.. - In: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING. - ISSN 1939-1404. - 7:7(2014), pp. 2880-2894. [10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2339631]
COSMO-SkyMed HH/VV PingPong mode SAR data to discriminate among sea, urban and vegetated areas
MIGLIACCIO, Maurizio;NUNZIATA, FERDINANDO;
2014
Abstract
In this study the sensitivity of COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) dual-polarimetric HH/VV Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data with respect to sea, vegetated and urban areas is investigated. A dual polarimetric feature, namely the complex correlation between the co-polarized channels, is introduced to exploit the inherent peculiarities of the CSK incoherent dual-polarization PingPong mode for distinguishing the three scenarios. The dual-pol feature is contrasted with the correlation between the HH and VV amplitudes, the co-polarized ratio and with conventional single-pol ones, namely the HH and the VV intensity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
