A New Target Detector Based on Geometrical Perturbation Filters for Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POL-SAR)

• Main Author: Marino, Armando (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Springer Theses
• Subjects: Geography.; Remote sensing.; Mathematical physics.; Algorithms.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.

This thesis presents a groundbraking methodology for the radar international community. The detection approach introduced, namely perturbation analysis, is completey novel showing a remarkable capability of thinking outside the box. Perturbation analysis is able to push forward the performance limit...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
• Radar Polarimetry
• Polarimetric Detector
• Polarimetric Detector Statistics
• Validation with airborne data
• Validation with satellite data
• Recent applications of perturbation filters
• Conclusions.-  Appendices.