The mosaics are generated from the original 20 m resolution L-band SAR data, acquired in HH and HV polarisations. While ALOS PALSAR features a full-polarisation option, the dual-polarisation mode was selected as trade-off between mission programmatic restrictions and thematic information. To facilitate more rapid processing and file handling, the data are processed as extended strip images, 70 ...

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 d...

To support the characterisation and mapping of wooded savannas in northern Australia from ALOS PALSAR strips, provided as part of the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) Kyoto and Carbon (K&C) Initiative, finer spatial resolution data have been acquired over a number of sites in Queensland. These sites are associated with different forest structural types but also areas of deforestation, d...

This study is a first assessment of fully polarimetric SAR data from the Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) – Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) over the test-site of Oberpfaffenhofen in Germany. The polarimetric calibration is checked by using corner reflectors on the Oberpfaffenhofen test-site. Further, the fully polarimetric images are classified by using the ...

This paper investigates the use of time series of ALOS/PALSAR-1 and COSMO-SkyMed data for the soil moisture retrieval (mv) by means of the SMOSAR algorithm. The application context is the exploitation of mv maps at a moderate spatial and temporal resolution for improving flood/drought monitoring at regional scale. The SAR data were acquired over the Capitanata plain in Southern Italy, over whic...

In this paper, we present results from detection of coherent scatterers in nonurban areas, using polarimetric SAR data from the airborne EMISAR and the spaceborne ALOS PALSAR instrument. By applying a signal-toclutter ratio test for coherent point targets, we show that by using polarimetric information in the Pauli decomposition, we increase the number of detected targets by a factor of two com...