Fu Sitao, Li Zhen, Tian Bangsen. Topographic correction of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar and its application in snow and ice mapping[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2014, 19(1): 150-157. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20140119.
To eliminate the influence of image distortions due to the topographic relief. A novel method for the topographic correction of Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) based on the coherence matrix has been put forward. First
the imaging geometry is reconstructed firstly based on the Range-Doppler mode. Then
the fused SAR image is obtained Cloude decomposition
which is used to match the simulated image to improve the geometric correction accuracy. Finally
the topographic correction for PolSAR is completed by the projection area normalization method and polarization azimuth shift compensation. To test the proposed method
a Radarsat-2 PolSAR image in C-band of the in Donkemadi district in China has been corrected and then applied to map the glacier. The RMSE of azimuth and range direction of register is 7.765 and 14.586 pixels and the accuracy of classification after topographic correction is more than 80%
Which proves: 1) The proposal method is able to remove geometric and radiometric distortion;2) the usage of polarization SAR in C-band in glacier mapping is feasible after the topographic correction.