Exploring the potential of Pol-InSAR techniques at X-band first results and experiments from TanDEM-X

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (Pol-InSAR) has been proven to be a powerful radar remote sensing technique for the investigation of natural volume scatterers. The coherent combination of single — or multi-baseline interferograms acquired at different polarisations provides sensitivity to the vertical distribution of scattering processes and allows their characterisation by using the associated (volume) interferometric coherences [1][2][3][4][5].

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