Analysis of anisotropic behavior using sub-aperture polarimetric SAR data

In this paper, a fully polarimetric analysis method is introduced to decompose synthesized polarimetric images into sub-aperture data sets, which corresponds to the scene responses under different azimuthal look-angles. A statistical analysis of polarimetric parameters permits to clearly discriminate media showing a non-stationary behavior during the SAR integration. A method is proposed, which eliminates the influence of azimuthal backscattering variations in conventional polarimetric SAR data analysis.