TY - BOOK AU - Lee,Jong-Sen AU - Pottier,Eric TI - Polarimetric radar imaging: from basics to applications T2 - Optical science and engineering SN - 9781420054972 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - TK6580 .L424 2009 U1 - 621.3848 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Radar KW - Polarimetry KW - Radio waves KW - Polarization KW - Remote sensing N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Overview of polarimetric radar imaging -- Electromagnetic vector wave and polarization descriptors -- Electromagnetic vector scattering operators -- Polarimetric SAR speckle statistics -- Polarimetric SAR speckle filtering -- Introduction to the polarimetric target decomposition concept -- H/A/[alpha] polarmimetric decomposition theorem -- PolSAR terrain and land-use classification -- Pol-InSAR forest mapping and classification -- Selected polarimetric SAR applications -- Appendix A: Eigen characteristics of Hermitian matrix -- Appendix B: PolSARpro software: The polarimetric SAR data processing and educational toolbox N2 - The 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. This book presents polarimetric radar imaging and processing techniques and shows how to develop remote sensing applications using PolSAR imaging radar UR - http://repository.fue.edu.eg/xmlui/handle/123456789/3936 ER -