This study explored different methodologiesusing a C-band RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized SyntheticAperture Radar （SAR） image located over China＇s YellowSea to investigate polarization decomposition parametersfor identif...This study explored different methodologiesusing a C-band RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized SyntheticAperture Radar （SAR） image located over China＇s YellowSea to investigate polarization decomposition parametersfor identifying mixed floating pollutants from a complexocean background. It was found that solitary polarizationdecomposition did not meet the demand for detecting andclassifying multiple floating pollutants, even after applyinga polarized SAR image. Furthermore, considering thatYamaguchi decomposition is sensitive to vegetation andthe algal variety Enteromorpha prolifera, while H/A/alphadecomposition is sensitive to oil spills, a combination ofparameters which was deduced from these two decom-positions was proposed for marine environmental mon-itoring of mixed floating sea surface pollutants. Acombination of volume scattering, surface scattering, andscattering entropy was the best indicator for classifyingmixed floating pollutants from a complex ocean back-ground. The Kappa coefficients for Enteromorpha pro-lifera and oil spills were 0.7514 and 0.8470, respectively,evidence that the composite polarized parameters based onquad-polarized SAR imagery proposed in this research isan effective monitoring method for complex marinepollution.展开更多
文摘This study explored different methodologiesusing a C-band RADARSAT-2 quad-polarized SyntheticAperture Radar （SAR） image located over China＇s YellowSea to investigate polarization decomposition parametersfor identifying mixed floating pollutants from a complexocean background. It was found that solitary polarizationdecomposition did not meet the demand for detecting andclassifying multiple floating pollutants, even after applyinga polarized SAR image. Furthermore, considering thatYamaguchi decomposition is sensitive to vegetation andthe algal variety Enteromorpha prolifera, while H/A/alphadecomposition is sensitive to oil spills, a combination ofparameters which was deduced from these two decom-positions was proposed for marine environmental mon-itoring of mixed floating sea surface pollutants. Acombination of volume scattering, surface scattering, andscattering entropy was the best indicator for classifyingmixed floating pollutants from a complex ocean back-ground. The Kappa coefficients for Enteromorpha pro-lifera and oil spills were 0.7514 and 0.8470, respectively,evidence that the composite polarized parameters based onquad-polarized SAR imagery proposed in this research isan effective monitoring method for complex marinepollution.
