An Tensor-Based Corn Mapping Scheme with Radarsat-2 Fully Polarimetric Images

As one of the most essential economic and industrial crops globally, corn holds a very important position in China's agricultural industry. Corn mapping is one of the most concerned fields in agricultural surveillance. However, compared with the utilization of backscattering coefficients, the polarimetric information was not fully discussed in previous corn mapping researches. In this paper, we use the coherency matrix of mid to late term multi-temporal fully polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (FP SAR) data to discriminate corn cultivation areas. The tensor representation is adopted for PolSAR analysis, with the help of multilinear principal component analysis (MPCA) to reduce feature dimensions. The importance of polarimetric information is discussed. This paper illustrates that good corn discrimination could be achieved with only mid to late term FP SAR data.