From basics to applications presents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using polsar imaging radar. A comprehensive overview of the basic principles of radar polarimetry is presented. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Target scattering mechanism in polarimetric synthetic. It has champions who tout that polarimetric measurements are uncorrelated with traditional measurements of the magnitude and spectral content of the. Polarimetric radar data provides much more detailed information about the surface geometry, terrain cover, and subsurface discontinuities than image brightness alone elachi et al. From basics to applicationspresents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using polsar imaging radar. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading polarimetric radar imaging. Mar 22, 20 an essential reference on polarimetric synthetic aperture radar sar, this book uses scattering theory and radiative transfer theory as a basis for its treatment of topics. From basics to applications optical science and engineering. The book provides a substantial and balanced introduction to the basic theory and advanced concepts of polarimetric scattering mechanisms, speckle statistics and speckle filtering, polarimetric. Polarimetric scattering and sar information retrieval. Curvelet techniques for analyzing radar polarimetric data.
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