scholarly journals Modified Hybrid Freeman/Eigenvalue Decomposition for Polarimetric SAR Data

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Zhang ◽  
Shuang Wang ◽  
Bo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Decomposition Method ◽  
Unitary Transformation ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Eigenvalue Decomposition ◽  
Reflection Symmetry ◽  
Polarimetric Sar ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Airborne Sensors

Because of the rapid advancement of the airborne sensors and spaceborne sensors, large volumes of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data are available, but they are too complex to interpret difficultly. In this paper, a modified hybrid Freeman/eigenvalue decomposition method for the coherency matrix derived from the fully PolSAR sensors is proposed. The proposed modified hybrid Freeman/eigenvalue decomposition uses a real unitary transformation on the coherency matrix to release correlations between the copolarized term and cross polarized term, and the scattering models are derived from eigenvectors of the coherency matrix with reflection symmetry condition. The anisotropy and entropy are used to determine whether the volume scattering component is derived from the man-made structures or not. Moreover, the scattering powers from the proposed hybrid Freeman/eigenvalue decomposition are all nonnegative values. Fully PolSAR data on San Francisco acquired by AIRSAR sensor are used in the experiments to prove the efficacy of the proposed decomposition.

scholarly journals HETEROGENEITY MEASUREMENT BASED ON DISTANCE MEASURE FOR POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA

2018 ◽  
Vol IV-3 ◽  
pp. 233-237
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Xing ◽  
Qihao Chen ◽  
Xiuguo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Covariance Matrix ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Polarimetric Sar ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Local Window ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Sar Data

To effectively test the scene heterogeneity for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data, in this paper, the distance measure is introduced by utilizing the similarity between the sample and pixels. Moreover, given the influence of the distribution and modeling texture, the K distance measure is deduced according to the Wishart distance measure. Specifically, the average of the pixels in the local window replaces the class center coherency or covariance matrix. The Wishart and K distance measure are calculated between the average matrix and the pixels. Then, the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean is established for the Wishart and K distance measure, and the two features are defined and applied to reflect the complexity of the scene. The proposed heterogeneity measure is proceeded by integrating the two features using the Pauli basis. The experiments conducted on the single–look and multilook PolSAR data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for the detection of the scene heterogeneity.

scholarly journals DETECTION OF BUILT-UP AREAS USING POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DATA AND HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-1-W5 ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Bordbari ◽  
Y. Maghsoudi ◽  
M. Salehi
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Target Detection ◽  
Hyperspectral Image ◽  
Hyperspectral Data ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Data ◽  
Aperture Radar

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR) is an advantageous data for information extraction about objects and structures by using the wave scattering and polarization properties. Hyperspectral remote sensing exploits the fact that all materials reflect, absorb, and emit electromagnetic energy, at specific wavelengths, in distinctive patterns related to their molecular composition. As a result of their fine spectral resolution, Hyperspectral image (HIS) sensors provide a significant amount of information about the physical and chemical composition of the materials occupying the pixel surface. In target detection applications, the main objective is to search the pixels of an HSI data cube for the presence of a specific material (target). In this research, a hierarchical constrained energy minimization (hCEM) method using 5 different adjusting parameters has been used for target detection from hyperspectral data. Furthermore, to detect the built-up areas from POLSAR data, building objects discriminated from surrounding natural media presented on the scene using Freeman polarimetric target decomposition (PTD) and the correlation coefficient between co-pol and cross-pol channels. Also, target detection method has been implemented based on the different polarization basis for using the more information. Finally a majority voting method has been used for fusing the target maps. The polarimetric image C-band SAR data acquired by Radarsat-2, over San Francisco Bay area was used for the evaluation of the proposed method.

scholarly journals Remote Sensing of Ocean Waves by Polarimetric SAR

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1768-1773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijun He ◽  
Hui Shen ◽  
William Perrie
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Ocean Waves ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Modulation Transfer ◽  
Wave Direction ◽  
Polarimetric Sar ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Wave Slope ◽  
Hydrodynamic Modulation ◽  
Aperture Radar

Abstract A new method to measure ocean wave slope spectra using fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR) data was developed without the need for a complex hydrodynamic modulation transform function. There is no explicit use of a hydrodynamic modulation transfer function. This function is not clearly known and is based on hydrodynamic assumptions. The method is different from those developed by Schuler and colleagues or Pottier but complements their methods. The results estimated from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) C-band polarimetric SAR data show that the ocean wavelength, wave direction, and significant wave height are in agreement with buoy measurements. The proposed method can be employed by future satellite missions such as RADARSAT-2.

scholarly journals Marine Oil Slick Detection Based on Multi-Polarimetric Features Matching Method Using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (23) ◽  
pp. 5176
Author(s):  
Guannan Li ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Bingxin Liu ◽  
Peng Wu ◽  
Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Computational Complexity ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Matching Method ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Spectral Similarity ◽  
Oil Spill Detection ◽  
Aperture Radar

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar is an important tool in the effective detection of marine oil spills. In this study, two cases of Radarsat-2 Fine mode quad-polarimetric synthetic aperture radar datasets are exploited to detect a well-known oil seep area that collected over the Gulf of Mexico using the same research area, sensor, and time. A novel oil spill detection scheme based on a multi-polarimetric features model matching method using spectral pan-similarity measure (SPM) is proposed. A multi-polarimetric features curve is generated based on optimal polarimetric features selected using Jeffreys–Matusita distance considering its ability to discriminate between thick and thin oil slicks and seawater. The SPM is used to search for and match homogeneous unlabeled pixels and assign them to a class with the highest similarity to their spectral vector size, spectral curve shape, and spectral information content. The superiority of the SPM for oil spill detection compared to traditional spectral similarity measures is demonstrated for the first time based on accuracy assessments and computational complexity analysis by comparing with four traditional spectral similarity measures, random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and decision tree (DT). Experiment results indicate that the proposed method has better oil spill detection capability, with a higher average accuracy and kappa coefficient (1.5–7.9% and 1–25% higher, respectively) than the four traditional spectral similarity measures under the same computational complexity operations. Furthermore, in most cases, the proposed method produces valuable and acceptable results that are better than the RF, SVM, and DT in terms of accuracy and computational complexity.

scholarly journals Marine Oil Slick Detection Using Improved Polarimetric Feature Parameters Based on Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1607
Author(s):  
Guannan Li ◽  
Ying Li ◽  
Yongchao Hou ◽  
Xiang Wang ◽  
Lin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Data ◽  
Marine Oil ◽  
Oil Spill Detection ◽  
Oil Slick ◽  
Feature Parameters ◽  
Aperture Radar

Marine oil spill detection is vital for strengthening the emergency commands of oil spill accidents and repairing the marine environment after a disaster. Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-SAR) can obtain abundant information of the targets by measuring their complex scattering matrices, which is conducive to analyze and interpret the scattering mechanism of oil slicks, look-alikes, and seawater and realize the extraction and detection of oil slicks. The polarimetric features of quad-pol SAR have now been extended to oil spill detection. Inspired by this advancement, we proposed a set of improved polarimetric feature combination based on polarimetric scattering entropy H and the improved anisotropy A12–H_A12. The objective of this study was to improve the distinguishability between oil slicks, look-alikes, and background seawater. First, the oil spill detection capability of the H_A12 combination was observed to be superior than that obtained using the traditional H_A combination; therefore, it can be adopted as an alternate oil spill detection strategy to the latter. Second, H(1 − A12) combination can enhance the scattering randomness of the oil spill target, which outperformed the remaining types of polarimetric feature parameters in different oil spill scenarios, including in respect to the relative thickness information of oil slicks, oil slicks and look-alikes, and different types of oil slicks. The evaluations and comparisons showed that the proposed polarimetric features can indicate the oil slick information and effectively suppress the sea clutter and look-alike information.

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