TU2.L09 - POTENTIALS OF A COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR SYSTEM
1. POTENTIALS OF A COMPACT POLARIMETRIC SAR SYSTEM My-Linh Truong-Loï, ONERA/CNES/IETR Pascale Dubois-Fernandez, ONERA Eric Pottier, IETR – UMR CNRS 6164 Anthony Freeman, JPL Jean-Claude Souyris, CNES
2. Objectives Missions dedicated to global environmental change monitoring Low frequency radar Ionosphere interaction Faraday rotation Compact polarimetry Transmitting a circular polarized wave No depolarization anymore Receiving two orthogonal polarized waves Estimate Faraday rotation High power of penetration Dual-pol system Large swath Dual-pol system
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12. Faraday rotation estimate over PALSAR L-band data Full polarimetric data Over bare surfaces μ >0.2 Compact polarimetric data Thanks to the ASF for providing the data.
15. FP vs CP soil moisture – Dubois et al. algorithm Stdv : 4% CP/FP soil moisture Estimated soil moisture CP & FP vs ground truth Stdv : 2% RAMSES L-band data, Le Moulin du Fâ, France AIRSAR/WASHITA L-band data over Chickasha area P. C. Dubois, J. van Zyl et T. Engman, Measuring Soil Moisture with Imaging Radars, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 915-926, Juillet 1995. FP soil moisture 0 100% 100% CP soil moisture