Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

The present article is an introductory paper in this special issue on synthetic aperture radar
(SAR). A short review is presented on the recent trend and development of SAR and related …

This paper presents a new general four-component scattering power decomposition method
by implementing a set of unitary transformations for the polarimetric coherency matrix. There …

Orientation angle compensation was incorporated into model-based decomposition to cure
overestimation of the volume scattering contribution for interpretation of polarimetric …

Applications of fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (POLSAR) have increased in the
past few decades. The potential of model-based decompositions is coupled with polarimetric …

Fully polarimetric model-based decompositions are developed by accounting for the
physical scattering model and experimental polarimetric SAR data acquisition processes …

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data are used extensively for terrain
classification applying SAR features from various target decompositions and certain textural …

Highly variable polarimetric signatures caused by complex structures in built-up areas make
interpretation of these scattering behaviors intractable for polarimetric synthetic aperture …

Model-based decomposition methods are widely used in full-polarization synthetic aperture
radar (SAR), for the inversion and interpretation of ground features and constitute an …

This study introduces a technique for automatically mapping built-up areas using synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) backscattering intensity and interferometric multi-temporal coherence …