Two Component Decomposition of Dual Polarimetric HH/VV SAR Data: Case Study for the Tundra Environment of the Mackenzie Delta Region, Canada

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Tobias Ullmann, Andreas Schmitt, Thomas Jagdhuber
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2016
• Subjects: Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR); dual polarimetry; polarimetric decomposition; TerraSAR-X; Radarsat-2; tundra; arctic; Canada; Science; Q; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8121027; https://doaj.org/article/5a6052f5d80c40aca9b5662db0b3bbff

This study investigates a two component decomposition technique for HH/VV-polarized PolSAR (Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar) data. The approach is a straight forward adaption of the Yamaguchi decomposition and decomposes the data into two scattering contributions: surface and double bounce und...