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We employ nonparametric statistical procedures to analyse multitemporal SAR/PolSAR satellite images. The aim is two-fold. We seek parsimony in data representation as well as efficient change detection. For these, wavelets and geostatistical…

Applications · Statistics 2020-01-17 Rodney Fonseca , Guilherme Ludwig , Michel Montoril , Aluísio Pinheiro

We use group theoretic ideas and coset space methods to deal with problems in polarization optics of a global nature. These include the possibility of a globally smooth phase convention for electric fields for all points on the Poincar\'{e}…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Arvind , S. Chaturvedi , N. Mukunda

This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Toby Sanders , Christian Dwyer , Rodrigo B. Platte

We analyse the polarisation properties of full Poincar\'e beams. We consider different configurations, such as Laguerre-Poincar\'e, Bessel-Poincar\'e, and Lambert-Poincar\'e beams. The former is the original Poincar\'e beam produced by a…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-02 Dorilian Lopez-Mago

This paper presents and discusses the use of a new feature for PolSAR imagery: the Generalized Statistical Complexity. This measure is able to capture the disorder of the data by means of the entropy, as well as its departure from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Alejandro C. Frery , Eliana S. de Almeida , Osvaldo A. Rosso

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a polarization--based steganographic scheme using partially polarized vector beams. In our approach, the spatially dependent polarization structure of the optical field serves as the carrier through…

Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) has achieved a prominent position as a remote imaging method. However, PolSAR images are contaminated by speckle noise due to the coherent illumination employed during the data acquisition.…

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We have developed a nonlocal algorithm for estimating polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) covariance matrices on single-look complex (SLC) format resolution. The algorithm is inspired by recent work with guided nonlocal means…

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In radar polarimetry, the target characteristics significantly depend on the rotation of the target concerning the radar line of sight. Hence, several attempts have been made in the literature to compensate for the rotational dependency or…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Subhadip Dey , Irena Hajnsek

Lidar has become a cornerstone sensing modality for 3D vision, especially for large outdoor scenarios and autonomous driving. Conventional lidar sensors are capable of providing centimeter-accurate distance information by emitting laser…

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Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 V. Pérez-Díez , I. Martí-Vidal , E. Albentosa-Ruiz , J. González-García , F. Jaron , T. Savolainen , M. H. Xu , R. Bachiller

Inspired by recent use of polarimetry to study the Cosmic Microwave Background and extragalatic supernovae, a foray into the statistical properties of Stokes parameters expressed in spherical coordinates is began, allowing circular…

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Images obtained from coherent illumination processes are contaminated with speckle. A prominent example of such imagery systems is the polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR). For such remote sensing tool the speckle interference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Abraão D. C. Nascimento , Alejandro C. Frery , Renato J. Cintra

A standard procedure to achieve accurate, precise, and fast polarization measurement is to choose analyzing and generating polarization states that yield an $\ell^2$-condition number optimized instrument matrix. This strategy works well for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuxi Cai , An Aloysius Wang , Chao He

We propose a new method for PolSAR (Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery classification based on stochastic distances in the space of random matrices obeying complex Wishart distributions. Given a collection of prototypes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Luis Gomez , Luis Alvarez , Luis Mazorra , Alejandro C. Frery

New generation of radio interferometers are envisaged to produce high quality, high dynamic range Stokes images of the observed sky from the corresponding under-sampled Fourier domain measurements. In practice, these measurements are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jasleen Birdi , Audrey Repetti , Yves Wiaux

Vision foundation models in remote sensing have been extensively studied due to their superior generalization on various downstream tasks. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) offers all-day, all-weather imaging capabilities, providing…

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