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Polarization dependence of azimuth cutoff from quad-pol SAR images / Huimin Li in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 57 n° 12 (December 2019)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 57 n° 12 (December 2019) . - pp 9878 - 9887 Titre : Polarization dependence of azimuth cutoff from quad-pol SAR images Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Huimin Li, Auteur ; Alexis Mouche, Auteur ; He Wang, Auteur ; Justin E. Stopa, Auteur ; Bertrand Chapron, Auteur Année de publication : 2019 Article en page(s) : pp 9878 - 9887 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] angle d'incidence [Termes IGN] azimut [Termes IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes IGN] image Gaofen [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] image Radarsat [Termes IGN] polarisation [Termes IGN] polarisation croisée [Termes IGN] surface de la mer [Termes IGN] transformation non linéaire [Termes IGN] vague Résumé : (auteur) Although basic understanding of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging mechanism of ocean waves has been achieved, challenges still remain. In this paper, a large number of quad-polarized SAR images are analyzed to help assess how the standard SAR imaging transformation applies to all polarization channels. Foremost, the azimuth cutoff, a parameter essentially governed by the detected wave motions, is today solely related to radar configuration and the ocean wave spectrum but not to the polarization configuration. As obtained, the analyses based on quad-polarized Radarsat-2 and Gaofen-3 products document the distinct dependence of azimuth cutoff on polarization and incidence angle. Especially for cross-polarized VH measurements, azimuth cutoff estimates are generally larger than copolarized HH ones, the latter already being larger than values estimated under VV configuration. This trend increases with the incidence angle. The systematic comparisons between SAR measurements and simulations further demonstrate that the present SAR nonlinear transformation may not properly take into account the differing coherence time associated with the multi-polarized observation of ocean scenes. In particular, to reproduce the large azimuth cutoff parameters of cross-polarized images, a reduced coherence time shall be expected. This measurable sensitivity shall enhance the capabilities of polarized SAR systems to precisely derive more ocean surface properties, especially the influence of wave breakers, by combining both the copolarization and cross-polarization measurements. Numéro de notice : A2019-601 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2929835 Date de publication en ligne : 14/08/2019 En ligne : http://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2929835 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94602 [article]