High-Resolution SAR Tomography using full rank Polarimetric spectral estimators

This paper presents new principles and techniques to perform High Resolution (HR) 3-D imaging of volumetric environments using Polarimetric SAR Tomography (POLTOMSAR) and Multi-Baseline Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR (MB-POL-inSAR) data. Unlike classical polarimetric spectral estimation approaches which consider polarization as way to improve the discrimination between vertically aligned scatterers, this paper provides full rank techniques which permit to estimate 3-D coherency matrices that can be characterized using classical polarimetric processing algorithms.

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