Analysis of designed composite scatterer on high resolution PolSAR image

Multiple scattering may render synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image interpretation difficult, particularly when it comes to imaging of man-made structures, which can be modeled as composite scatterers. To isolate different scattering mechanism, we designed an airborne SAR experiment based on the high resolution, sub-metric to decimetric range, capabilities full-polarimetric SAR system, CARSS (Chinese Airborne Remote Sensing System), developing by IECAS. The imaging results are quite accord with the theoretical analysis. With polarimetric target decomposition, we can simply distinguish the different scattering mechanism. The idea to interpret the man-made targets as the combination of simple scattering mechanisms is supported by the experiment results.