In this study, polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (pol-SAR) features are derived from full-, dual- and compact-polarimetric SAR measurements and their performance is investigated for sea oil slick observation purposes. Experiments undertaken on a RadarSAT-2 SAR scene collected over well-known oil slicks show that all the polSAR architectures allow correctly emphasizing oil slicks with respect to the surrounding sea. Full-pol and compact-pol SAR architectures allow detecting oil slicks without any adaptive thresholding, the latter is needed when dealing with dual-pol (co-co) SAR measurements. As a matter of fact, the key pitfall of pol-SAR, i.e. its limited swath, can be successfully overcame by compact-polarimetric architecture that, with respect to sea oil slick observation, exhibits performance similar to full-polarimetric SAR.

A new look at the old sea oil slick observation problem: Opportunities and pitfalls of SAR polarimetry / Nunziata, Ferdinando; Buono, Andrea; Migliaccio, Maurizio. - 2016-:(2016), pp. 4027-4030. (Intervento presentato al convegno 36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 tenutosi a chn) [10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730047].

A new look at the old sea oil slick observation problem: Opportunities and pitfalls of SAR polarimetry

NUNZIATA, FERDINANDO;MIGLIACCIO, Maurizio
2016

Abstract

In this study, polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (pol-SAR) features are derived from full-, dual- and compact-polarimetric SAR measurements and their performance is investigated for sea oil slick observation purposes. Experiments undertaken on a RadarSAT-2 SAR scene collected over well-known oil slicks show that all the polSAR architectures allow correctly emphasizing oil slicks with respect to the surrounding sea. Full-pol and compact-pol SAR architectures allow detecting oil slicks without any adaptive thresholding, the latter is needed when dealing with dual-pol (co-co) SAR measurements. As a matter of fact, the key pitfall of pol-SAR, i.e. its limited swath, can be successfully overcame by compact-polarimetric architecture that, with respect to sea oil slick observation, exhibits performance similar to full-polarimetric SAR.
2016
36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016
oil pollution; Polarimetry; SAR; Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Earth and Planetary Sciences (all)
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A new look at the old sea oil slick observation problem: Opportunities and pitfalls of SAR polarimetry / Nunziata, Ferdinando; Buono, Andrea; Migliaccio, Maurizio. - 2016-:(2016), pp. 4027-4030. (Intervento presentato al convegno 36th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2016 tenutosi a chn) [10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730047].
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