Data volume reduction for imaging radar polarimetry

US4829303A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration · US

Inventors

• Howard A. Zebker · Palo Alto, US
• Daniel Held · Palo Alto, US
• Jakob J. van Zul · Pasadena, US
• Pascale C. Dubois · Pasadena, US
• Lynne Norikane · Arcadia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1988
• Grant date: May 9, 1989
• Expiry date: May 18, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S13/9076
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Two alternative methods are disclosed for digital reduction of synthetic aperture multipolarized radar data using scattering matrices, or using Stokes matrices, of four consecutive along-track pixels to produce "averaged" data for generating a synthetic polarization image.