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Polarimetric SAR calibration and residual error estimation when corner reflectors are unavailable / Lei Shi in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 6 (June 2020)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 58 n° 6 (June 2020) . - pp 4454 - 4471 Titre : Polarimetric SAR calibration and residual error estimation when corner reflectors are unavailable Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Lei Shi, Auteur ; Pingxiang Li, Auteur ; Jie Yang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 4454 - 4471 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bruit (théorie du signal) [Termes IGN] coin réflecteur [Termes IGN] dégradation du signal [Termes IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes IGN] étalonnage [Termes IGN] extraction automatique [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] interruption du signal [Termes IGN] polarimétrie radar [Termes IGN] polarisation croisée [Termes IGN] rétrodiffusion de Bragg Résumé : (auteur) In this article, we propose a polarimetric calibration (PolCal) algorithm to estimate the system crosstalk, cross-polarization (x-pol), and co-polarization (co-pol) channel imbalance (CI) when ground corner reflectors (CRs) are unavailable. The current PolCal process requires at least one trihedral CR to determine the co-pol CI. However, the deployment of ground CRs is costly and may even be impossible in some areas. To calibrate a polarimetric image without CRs, our proposed method automatically extracts the volume-dominated and Bragg-like pixels as a reference to estimate the crosstalk, x-pol, and co-pol CI values. Then, a first-order polynomial model is exploited to fit the co-pol CI to further improve calibration accuracy. In the experimental section, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method with data from two of China’s newly developed very high-resolution systems. The experiments confirmed that the proposed workflow can be considered as a feasible calibration scheme when the ground deployment of CRs is impossible, and it is also an effective analysis tool for the assessment of calibrated products. Numéro de notice : A2020-286 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2964732 Date de publication en ligne : 20/01/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2020.2964732 Format de la ressource électronique : url article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=95109 [article]