TY - RPRT
T1 - A version of the Cloude/van Zyl decomposition for full/quad pol synthetic aperture radar data
AU - Nielsen, Allan Aasbjerg
AU - Connetable, Paul Jacques
AU - Skriver, Henning
AU - Conradsen, Knut
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Based on the Cloude/van Zyl decomposition of reflection symmetric polarimetric SAR data we present a version for full/quad polarisation data. We demonstrate both versions on X-band F-SAR data over Vejers, Denmark. Differences between the original and our version of the decomposition occur especially for very bright man-made targets. These differences come with lower entropy for our version giving an improved focus on a more pronounced dominant scattering mechanism for these objects. Interpretation of the scattering mechanism related to the full/quad pol version of the decomposition is facilitated by means of the Cloude/Pottier ¯α angle.
AB - Based on the Cloude/van Zyl decomposition of reflection symmetric polarimetric SAR data we present a version for full/quad polarisation data. We demonstrate both versions on X-band F-SAR data over Vejers, Denmark. Differences between the original and our version of the decomposition occur especially for very bright man-made targets. These differences come with lower entropy for our version giving an improved focus on a more pronounced dominant scattering mechanism for these objects. Interpretation of the scattering mechanism related to the full/quad pol version of the decomposition is facilitated by means of the Cloude/Pottier ¯α angle.
KW - Complex covariance matrices
KW - Hermitian matrices
KW - Polarimetric SAR
U2 - 10.11581/dtu.00000237
DO - 10.11581/dtu.00000237
M3 - Report
BT - A version of the Cloude/van Zyl decomposition for full/quad pol synthetic aperture radar data
PB - Technical University of Denmark
ER -