Polarimetric modeling and parameter estimation with applications toremote sensing

  • Authors:
  • B. Hochwald;A. Nehorai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Develops and analyzes two parametric models in which electromagnetic plane waves carrying polarimetric information are received. The first model considers estimation of the polarimetric response of a surface by measuring the reflections of actively generated waves. The second considers estimation of the polarization of passively generated waves. Both models have applications to remote sensing. The authors propose a natural parametrization of the distribution of the received signal. Using the Cramer-Rao bound, they characterize the best possible accuracy of unbiased estimators of these parameters. Simple estimators are given. Both models are fitted into a common framework and compared