On the use of permanent symmetric scatterers for ship characterization

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2039-2045

  Touzi, Ridha ^a   Raney, R Keith ^b   Charbonneau, François ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; Polarization orientation; Ship recognition; Symmetric scattering; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

POLARIZATION ORIENTATION; SHIP RECOGNITION; SYMMETRIC SCATTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 4944221419     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.834654     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. R. Touzi, "Calibrated polarimetric SAR data for ship detection," in Proc. IGARSS, Honolulu, HI, 2000.
2. R. Touzi, F. Charbonneau, R. K. Hawkins, and P. W. Vachon, "Characterization of target symmetric scattering using polarimetric SARs," Can. J. Remote Sens., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 552-559, June 2004.
3. K. Kennaugh, "Effects of type of polarization on echo characteristics," Antenna Lab., The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, Tech. Rep. 389-4 and 381-9, 1951.
4. J. R. Huynen, "Phenomenological theory of radar targets," Univ. Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, Tech Rep., 1970.
5. E. Krogager, "New decomposition of the radar target scattering matrix," Electron. Lett., vol. 26, no. 18, pp. 1525-1527, 1990.
6. W. L. Cameron, N. Youssef, and L. K. Leung, "Simulated polarimetric signatures of primitive geometrical shapes," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing., vol. 34, pp. 793-803, May 1996.
7. R. Touzi and F. Charbonneau, "Characterization of target symmetric scattering using polarimetric SARs," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing., vol. 40, pp. 2507-2516, Nov. 2002.
8. J. J. Van Zyl, "Application of Cloude's target decomposition theorem to polarimetric imaging radar data," Proc. SPIE, vol. 1748, pp. 184-191, July 1992.
9. S. R. Cloude, "Group theory and polarization algebra," Optik, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 26-36, 1986.
10. R. Touzi, W. M. Boerner, J. S. Lee, and E. Luneberg, "A review of polarimetry in the context of synthetic aperture radar: Concepts and information extraction," Can. J. Remote Sens., vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 1-29, June 2004.
11. R. Touzi, A. Lopes, J. Bruniquel, and P. W. Vachon, "Coherence estimation for SAR imagery," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 37, pp. 135-149, Jan. 1999.
12. J. S. Lee, D. L. Schuler, and T. L. Ainsworth, "Polarimetric SAR data compensation for terrain azimuth slope variation," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 38, pp. 2153-2163, Sept. 2000.
13. K. Eldhuset, "An automatic ship and ship wake detection system for spaceborne SAR images in coastal regions," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 34, pp. 1010-1019, July 1996.
14. C. E. Livingstone, A. L. Gray, R. K. Hawkins, P. W. Vachon, T. I. Lukowski, and M. LaLonde, "The CCRS airborne SAR systems: Radar for remote sensing research," Can. J. Remote Sens., vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 468-491, 1995.
15. R. K. Hawkins, K. P. Murnaghan, M. Yeremy, and M. Rey, "Ship detection using airborne polarimetric SAR," in Proc. CEOS SAR Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 2001.
16. R. Touzi, "Extraction of point target response characteristics from complex SAR data," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 30, pp. 1158-1161, Nov. 1992.
17. R. Touzi, R. K. Raney, and A. Lopes, "On the use of SAR complex data for calibration," in Proc. IGARSS, Houston, TX, May 1992, pp. 1155-1157.
18. R. Touzi and R. K. Raney, "Effect of Doppler centroid mistracking on the parameter estimation of point target complex signals," in Proc. IGARSS, Pasadena, CA, Aug. 1994, pp. 2212-2214.
19. R. K. Raney, "SAR response to partially coherent phenomena," IEEE Trans. Antenna Propagat., vol. AP-26, pp. 777-787, Nov. 1980.
20. J. W. Goodman, Laser Speckle and Related Phenomena, J. C. Dainty, Ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975.