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A polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) system, which uses multiple images acquired with different polarizations in both transmission and reception, has the potential to improve the description and interpretation of the observed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Dehbia Hanis , Luca Pallotta , Augusto Aubry , Aichouche Belhadj-Aissa , Antonio De Maio

In this letter, a methodology is proposed to improve the scattering powers obtained from model-based decomposition using Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data. The novelty of this approach lies in utilizing the intrinsic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-05-27 D. Ratha , M. Surendar , A. Bhattacharya

While polarisation sensing is vital in many areas of research, with applications spanning from microscopy to aerospace, traditional approaches are limited by method-related error amplification or accumulation, placing fundamental…

In this letter, we propose a novel technique for obtaining scattering components from Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data using the geodesic distance on the unit sphere. This geodesic distance is obtained between an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Debanshu Ratha , Avik Bhattacharya , Alejandro C. Frery

In this paper, we introduce an iterative speckle filtering method for polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) images based on the bilateral filter. To locally adapt to the spatial structure of images, this filter relies on pixel similarities in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-04 Olivier D'Hondt , Stéphane Guillaso , Olaf Hellwich

The angle of rotation of any target about the radar line of sight (LOS) is known as the polarization orientation angle. The orientation angle is found to be non-zero for undulating terrains and man-made targets oriented away from the radar…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Avik Bhattacharya

The approaches for analyzing the polarimetric scattering matrix of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data have always been the focus of PolSAR image classification. Generally, the polarization coherent matrix and the covariance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Xu Tang , Qigong Sun , Dan Zhang

A common assumption in radar remote sensing studies for vegetation is that radar returns originate from a target made up by a set of uniformly distributed isotropic scatterers. Nonetheless, several studies in the literature have noted that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 J. David Ballester-Berman

This paper presents a technique for reducing speckle in Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) imagery using Nonlocal Means and a statistical test based on stochastic divergences. The main objective is to select homogeneous pixels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Leonardo Torres , Sidnei J. S. Sant'Anna , Corina C. Freitas , Alejandro C. Frery

We propose POLAR, a novel radar-guided depth estimation method that introduces polynomial fitting to efficiently transform scaleless depth predictions from pretrained monocular depth estimation (MDE) models into metric depth maps. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Patrick Rim , Hyoungseob Park , Vadim Ezhov , Jeffrey Moon , Alex Wong

This work presents a comprehensive examination of the use of information theory for understanding Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images by means of contrast measures that can be used as test statistics. Due to the phenomenon…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-02-11 A. C. Frery , A. D. C. Nascimento , R. J. Cintra

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered being a good option for earth observation with its unique advantages. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive ship detector using full-polarization SAR images. First, by thoroughly investigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Chuan Zhang , Gui Gao , Linlin Zhang , C. Chen , S. Gao , Libo Yao , Shiquan Gou

POLSAR image has an advantage over optical image because it can be acquired independently of cloud cover and solar illumination. PolSAR image classification is a hot and valuable topic for the interpretation of POLSAR image. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Xu Liu , Licheng Jiao , Dan Zhang , Fang Liu

A method based on orthogonal function series interpolation of the square root probability density to analyze higher dimensional scattered data is presented. The method is targeted for the use-case when the model and/or data are available…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-03-01 K. Gellerstedt , J. Sjölin

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

An algorithm for representing irregular satellite data obtained from advanced synthetic aperture radar (ASAR) uniformly in space and time is introduced and comparison with WAVEWATCH III model (WW3) data is carried out. Swell global data for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Heitor Perotto , Leandro Farina , Nelson Violante-Carvalho

Polarization diversity offers a cost- and space-efficient solution to enhance the performance of integrated sensing and communication systems. Polarimetric sensing exploits the signal's polarity to extract details about the target such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Byunghyun Lee , Rang Liu , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) images are establishing as an important source of information in remote sensing applications. The most complete format this type of imaging produces consists of complex-valued Hermitian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Leonardo Torres , Antonio C. Medeiros , Alejandro C. Frery

This paper is related to our previous works [1][2] on the error estimate of the averaging technique, for systems with one fast angular variable. In the cited references, a general method (of mixed analytical and numerical type) has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Carlo Morosi , Livio Pizzocchero

An innovative 3-D radar imaging technique is developed for fast and efficient identification and characterization of radar backscattering components of complex objects, when the collected scattered field is made of polarization-diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Pierre Minvielle , Pierre Massaloux , Jean-François Giovannelli
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