Title
Three-component power decomposition for polarimetric SAR data based on adaptive volume scatter modeling
Abstract
In this paper, the three-component power decomposition for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data with an adaptive volume scattering model is proposed. The volume scattering model is assumed to be reflection-symmetric but parameterized. For each image pixel, the decomposition first starts with determining the adaptive parameter based on matrix similarity metric. Then, a respective scattering power component is retrieved with the established procedure. It has been shown that the proposed method leads to complete elimination of negative powers as the result of the adaptive volume scattering model. Experiments with the PolSAR data from both the NASA/JPL (National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Airborne SAR (AIRSAR) and the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) ALOS-PALSAR also demonstrate that the proposed method not only obtains similar/better results in vegetated areas as compared to the existing Freeman-Durden decomposition but helps to improve discrimination of the urban regions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3390/rs4061559
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
polarimetric SAR,power decomposition,adaptive volume scattering model
Aerospace,Matrix similarity,Parameterized complexity,Remote sensing,Jet propulsion,Polarimetric sar,Pixel,Scattering,Geology,Decomposition
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
4
6
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.70
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Cui1445.60
Yoshio Yamaguchi2594.31
Jian Yang348364.80
Sang-Eun Park420124.33
Hirokazu Kobayashi5423.42
Gulab D S Singh6110.70