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3-D Characterization of Urban Areas Using High-Resolution Polarimetric SAR Tomographic Techniques and a Minimal Number of Acquisitions

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This article addresses the 3-D reconstruction of urban areas using a minimal number of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) acquisitions, that is, a set of three images, characterized by intermediate spatial resolution features. In such extreme conditions, conventional tomographic techniques reveal unadapted to refined 3-D imaging purposes, either due to the resulting intrinsic coarse vertical resolution, or to the low dimensionality of the data set, that prevents any separation of complex mixed scattering patterns. A new high-resolution (HR) tomographic estimator, based on a polarimetric signal subspace fitting criterion, is proposed to overcome these limitations, as this method adapts to the statistical behavior of the backscattered signals using robust metrics. The optimization of the corresponding focusing criterion is led through a new polarimetric alternating projection algorithm, characterized by a low computational cost, which may also be used to optimize the polarimetric the deterministic maximum likelihood criterion. The proposed polarimetric signal subspace fitting technique is shown to outperform the other studied HR techniques over both simulated signals and data acquired by the DLR's ESAR sensor at L-band over Dresden city, Germany. Finally full-rank polarimetric tomographic estimators are proposed that generalize nonparametric polarimetric estimators, and permit to estimate second-order polarimetric representations in 3-D, instead of unitary rank target vector with their conventional versions. This approach makes it possible to characterize polarimetric scattering mechanisms in 3-D.
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hal-02297035 , version 1 (26-01-2021)

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Yue Huang, Laurent Ferro-Famil. 3-D Characterization of Urban Areas Using High-Resolution Polarimetric SAR Tomographic Techniques and a Minimal Number of Acquisitions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021, 59 (11), pp.9086-9103. ⟨10.1109/TGRS.2020.3044150⟩. ⟨hal-02297035⟩
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