RADAR POLARIMETRY AND INTERFEROMETRY: Past, Present and Future Trends
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Recent developments of wave polarization effects in radar remote sensing are summarized in historical sequence resulting in Radar Polarimetry, Radar Interferometry and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry, which represent the current culmination in airborne and space borne ‘Microwave Remote Sensing’ technology. Whereas with radar polarimetry the textural fine-structure, target orientation, symmetries and material constituents can be recovered with considerable improvement above that of standard 'amplitude-only' radar; by implementing ‘radar interferometry’ the spatial structure can be explored. With Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POL-IN-SAR) imaging, it is possible to recover such co-registered textural and spatial information from POL-IN-SAR digital image data sets simultaneously – as will be demonstrated.
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