Paper Info
Title
All season assessment of RADARSAT Constellation Mission compact polarimetry modes for canadian ICE service operational implementation
Abstract
The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) will have the capability of acquiring all of its beam modes in a compact polarimetry (CP) configuration. The RCM SAR will transmit circular polarization and receive two orthogonal mutually coherent linear polarizations at swath widths large enough for operational sea ice monitoring. CP parameters are synthesized from RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized data, to emulate three RCM modes at different resolutions and noise floors. From an initial set of 26 CP parameters and 5 standard parameters, the most promising parameters for sea ice type and open water discrimination are identified for each ice season, using two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov testing. The most promising parameters are further analyzed to assess their suitability for automated classification while qualitative analysis is also performed to assess the interpretive improvement of CP parameters over standard co- and cross-polarized imagery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946737
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
geophysical image processing,image classification,radar polarimetry,remote sensing by radar,sea ice,synthetic aperture radar,Canadian ice service operational implementation,RADARSAT Constellation Mission,RADARSAT-2 quadpolarized data,SAR,automated classification,compact polarimetry configuration,open water discrimination,sea ice monitoring,sea ice type,two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov testing,SAR,compact polarimetry,sea ice
Meteorology,Sea ice,Polarimetry,Circular polarization,Computer science,Remote sensing,Canadian Ice Service,Constellation,Open water
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-6996
1
0.37
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Torsten Geldsetzer1295.80
Matt Arkett283.18
Thomas Zagon310.37