Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications (Hardcover)

The recent launches of three fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) satellites have shown that polarimetric radar imaging can provide abundant data on the Earth’s environment, such as biomass and forest height estimation, snow cover mapping, glacier monitoring, and damage assessment. Written by two of the most recognized leaders in this field, Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications presents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using PolSAR imaging radar.

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 information analysis and extraction techniques, and applications typical to radar polarimetric remote sensing. It explains the importance of wave polarization theory and the speckle phenomenon in the information retrieval problem of microwave imaging and inverse scattering. The authors demonstrate how to devise intelligent information extraction algorithms for remote sensing applications. They also describe more advanced polarimetric analysis techniques for polarimetric target decompositions, polarization orientation effects, polarimetric scattering modeling, speckle filtering, terrain and forest classification, manmade target analysis, and PolSAR interferometry.

With sample PolSAR data sets and software available for download, this self-contained, hands-on book encourages you to analyze space-borne and airborne PolSAR and polarimetric interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) data and then develop applications using this data.

最近三顆全偏極合成孔徑雷達（PolSAR）衛星的發射表明，偏極雷達成像可以提供大量關於地球環境的數據，例如生物量和森林高度估算、雪被覆蓋地圖、冰川監測和損壞評估。由這個領域中最知名的兩位領導者撰寫，《偏極雷達成像：從基礎到應用》介紹了偏極雷達成像和處理技術，並展示了如何使用PolSAR成像雷達開發遙感應用。

本書提供了對偏極散射機制、斑點統計和斑點濾波、偏極信息分析和提取技術以及雷達偏極遙感典型應用的基本理論和高級概念的全面且平衡的介紹。它解釋了波動偏極理論和斑點現象在微波成像和逆散射信息檢索問題中的重要性。作者演示了如何為遙感應用設計智能信息提取算法。他們還描述了更高級的偏極分析技術，包括偏極目標分解、偏極方向效應、偏極散射建模、斑點濾波、地形和森林分類、人造目標分析和PolSAR干涉測量。

本書提供了可供下載的PolSAR數據集和軟件，鼓勵讀者分析太空和空中的PolSAR和偏極干涉合成孔徑雷達（Pol-InSAR）數據，並開發相應的應用。