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