Polarimetry Workshop

Title

Practical Radar Polarimetry: Theory and Applications

Workshop Description

The objective of the workshop is to provide a point-of-entry for the user who is familiar with single channel radar data and applications, but is interested in polarimetric radar theory, analysis, and applications. The workshop will present radar polarimetry from a practical perspective. The approach is to build on fundamental radar principles and to then add the various levels of polarimetric information. The workshop provides an introduction to radar polarimetry and an overview of the polarimetry capability of RADARSAT-2. The workshop will provides an in-depth discussion of wave and scattering polarimetry, and target decomposition techniques.

The workshop integrates theory with hands-on computer-based demonstrations. The objective of the demonstrations is to provide experience with the manipulation of quad-polarized data, and to augment the topics presented in the theory. The demonstrations also provide exposure to the various quad-polarized data analysis and visualization algorithms that are available.

To compliment the theory section, an overview of polarimetry applications will be presented. The applications will cover many areas including agriculture, defence and security, forestry, geology, hydrology, ice, and marine surveillance.

Duration

The workshop is proposed for a duration of one day.

Contact

Gordon Staples
MDA
13800 Commerce Parkway
Richmond, B.C., CANADA
V6V 2J3
gstaples@mdacorporation.com