Improved Estimators of Faraday Rotation in Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Data
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- 10 June 2010
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- Vol. 7 (4) , 846-850
Abstract
Spaceborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar systems operating at lower frequencies, such as P-band, are significantly affected by Faraday rotation (FR). A new set of FR estimators is derived from the off-diagonal terms in the measured covariance matrix of a distributed target. These estimators have a phase ambiguity of period , instead of /2 as for the published estimators, and this ambiguity can be completely resolved for arbitrarily large values of FR using total electron content maps derived from Global Navigation Satellite System measurements. Simulations show that one of the new estimators has particularly high resistance to system noise and channel amplitude imbalance but greater sensitivity to channel phase imbalance than the published estimators. Hence, the expected values of residual system distortion after calibration may affect the choice of estimator.Keywords
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