High Performance Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Interpretation

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16H06799
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Measurement engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Electro-Communications
• Principal Investigator: Shang Fang 電気通信大学, 大学院情報理工学研究科, 助教 (90779050)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 合成開口レーダ / データ解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) is one of microwave imaging sensors with high spatial resolution. In this research, data interpreation algorithm for PolSAR is improved. The experiments are implemented with ALOS data provided by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for many areas such as Tokyo habor. The results have shown that the interpretation performance is much improved, especially for oriented man-made targets, randomly distributed man-made targets, and isolated man-made targets. Such targets are difficult to be detected in other algorithms.

Free Research Field

計測工学