Review of existing monographs and books on radar polarimetry and polariemtric SAR with the aim of justifying the need of updates

Radar Polarimetry, Radar Interferometry and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry represent the current culmination in active ‘Microwave Remote Sensing’ technology, but we still need to progress considerably more in order to reach the limits of physical realizability. Whereas with radar polarimetry the textural fine-structure, target orientation, symmetries and material constituents can be recovered with considerable improvement above that of standard ‘amplitude-only radar’, by implementing ‘radar interferometry’ the spatial (in depth) structure can be explored. With Polarimetric Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POL-IN-SAR) imaging, it is possible to recover such co-registered textural and spatial information from POL-IN-SAR digital image data sets simultaneously, including the extraction of Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) from either Polarimetric (scattering matrix) or Interferometric (dual antenna) SAR systems. However, in order to further advance this promising technology, we require pertinent basic educational and advanced research texts plus application oriented books for the practicing engineering scientists and users. Hitherto there are not available satisfactory updated sets of basic books or application oriented handbooks. Therefore, in this paper a succinct review of the existing pertinent monographs, books and guides will be presented with the aim of identifying particular topics that still need to be covered. We do now require these urgently associated sets of revised and updated multi-lingual (English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese) books.