Preliminary results of the comparative analysis of ERS-1 and ALMAZ-1 SAR data

Abstract This paper deals with a comparative analysis ERS-1 and ALMAZ-1 SAR data from an urban area test site. The investigation includes a visual thematic interpretation using recognition criteria objects and makes a statistical analysis based on parameters featuring the information content. Classification of the SAR data sets have been performed to investigate the separability of topographic objects for each SAR system as well as for the combination of both data sets.