Roll-Invariant Features in Radar Polarimetry: A Survey

Roll-invariant polarimetric features which are independent of target orientation angle along the radar line of sight are popularly adopted in many radar application fields. During the development history of radar polarimetry, a number of roll-invariant polarimetric features have been reported in terms of different polarimetric matrix formulations, different target decomposition approaches and different scattering mechanism interpretation tools. Currently, there is lack of a comprehensive summary of these valuable roll-invariant polarimetric features. Also, their inner-relationships need to be further disclosed. Finally, deep investigations of their application potentials are essentially necessary. This work is dedicated to these aforementioned issues and a survey of roll-invariant polarimetric features is carried out.

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