Fully Polarimetric Sar Data for Oil Slick Observation
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In this study a fully polarimetric electromagnetic model for sea surface Mueller matrix is exploited, under low to moderate wind conditions, to design and experiment a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) oil slick filter. The latter is simple and computer time effective. Experiments, accomplished over C-band Multi Look Complex (MLC) SIR-C/X-SAR data and L-band Single Look Complex (SLC) ALOS PalSAR data, show the capability of the proposed technique to observe oil slicks and distinguish them from oil look-alikes both at L-and C-band. Moreover, the filter does not need any external threshold to provide a true-false logical output which is very advisable for operational purposes.
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