TY - BOOK AU - Barot, Samarth (PT200117) AU - Rawal, Darshana (Guide) AU - Vyjayanthi, Nizalpur (Guide) TI - SAR polarimetric analysis of land use land cover classification : Ahmedabad city (Softcopy is also available) U1 - MG TH-0170 PY - 2019/// N1 - Table of contents Certificate of Original Authorship i Certificate of Dissertation - Advisor’s consent iii Certificate of Dissertation - Program Chair v Acknowledgements vii Abstract ix List of figures xi List of tables xiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background - Microwave Remote Sensing 1 1.1.1 Microwave Spectrum 2 1.1.2 Microwave Bands 3 1.2 Synthetic Aperture Radar 4 1.2.1 Polarisation process for Synthetic Aperture Radar 4 1.2.2 Incident Angles 5 2 Review of Literature 7 2.1 Polarimetric Target Decomposition 8 2.2 Maximum likelihood Classifier 12 3 Study Area and Datasets 15 3.1 Study Area 15 3.2 Datasets utilised 16 3.2.1 SAR DATA 16 3.2.2 Ground Truth Data 17 4 Objective and Methodology 19 4.1 Objectives 19 4.2 Methodology 19 5 Results and Conclusion 23 5.1 Pre-Processing 23 5.2 Backscatter 24 5.3 Decomposition 27 5.3.1 Freeman Durden 27 5.3.2 Yamaguchi Decomposition 30 5.3.3 Van Zyl Decomposition 33 5.3.4 H-a Alpha Decomposition 35 5.4 Supervised Classification 38 References 45 Plagiarism Report Copy 47 ER -