Preliminary pattern recognition in polarimetric signatures

In the presented paper the idea of a new method of quad-polarimetric SAR data decomposition is presented. The proposed decomposition is based on the pattern recognition in polarimetric signatures. In the described decomposition four basic scattering mechanisms are taken into consideration: single bounce, double bounce, helix and volume scattering. In this paper, the first proposed method of pattern recognition in polarimetric signatures is described. The preliminary results of its application are shown. The method was tested for selected pixels from real SAR image which response is very similar to the response of trihedral, dihedral and right and left helix. The approach to more complicated objects is also described.