Title
PolSAR Coherency Matrix Optimization Through Selective Unitary Rotations for Model-Based Decomposition Scheme
Abstract
In this letter, a special unitary SU(3) matrix group is exploited for coherency matrix transformations to decouple the energy between orthogonal states of polarization. This decoupling results in the minimization of the cross-polarization power along with the removal of some off-diagonal terms of coherency matrix. The proposed unitary transformations are utilized on the basis of the underlying dominant scattering mechanism. By doing so, the reduced power from the cross-polarization channel is always concentrated on the underlying dominant co-polar scattering component. This makes it unique in comparison to state-of-the-art techniques. The proposed methodology can be adopted to optimize the coherency matrix to be used for the model-based decomposition methods. To verify this, pioneer three-component decomposition model is implemented using the proposed optimized coherency matrix of two different test sites. The comparative studies are analyzed to show the improvements over state-of-the-art techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/LGRS.2018.2878654
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
Scattering,Matrix decomposition,Minimization,Optimization,Azimuth,Couplings,Urban areas
Topology,Computer vision,Matrix (mathematics),Decoupling (cosmology),Matrix decomposition,Polarization (waves),Unitary state,Minification,Artificial intelligence,Transformation matrix,Mathematics,Matrix group
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
4
1545-598X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Himanshu Maurya101.01
Rajib Kumar Panigrahi212.38