PolSARpro-BIO The new scientific toolbox for ESA and third party fully polarimetric SAR missions

E. Pottier (1) , Laurent Ferro-Famil (1) , M. Fitrzyk (2) , Y.-L. Desnos (2)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 ESRIN - European Space Research Institute

The objective of this paper is to make a general presentation of the future version of the ESA PolSARpro software toolbox which will be named PolSARpro-BIO software. Since 2003, the objective of the PolSARpro software project is to provide educational software that offers a tool for self-education in the field of Polarimetric SAR data analysis and a comprehensive suite of functions for the scientific exploitation of fully and partially polarimetric data sets. The PolSARpro software establishes a foundation for the exploitation of polarimetric techniques for scientific developments and stimulates research and applications developments using Pol-SAR (Polarimetric SAR), Pol-InSAR (Polarimetric - Interferometric SAR), Pol-TomoSAR (Polarimetric - Tomographic SAR) and Pol-TimeSAR (Polarimetric - Time Series SAR) data. In this paper we propose, first, a review of the current status of the PolSARpro software then we present the objectives and functionalities of the PolSARpro-BIO Software, the new scientific toolbox for ESA and third party fully polarimetric SAR missions. © VDE VERLAG GMBH  Berlin  Offenbach.

Keywords: Application programs; Polarimeters; Educational software; Fully polarimetric SAR; Polarimetric data; Polarimetric Interferometric SAR; Polarimetric SAR data; Research and application; Scientific development; Scientific exploitation; Synthetic aperture radar

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

E. Pottier, Laurent Ferro-Famil, M. Fitrzyk, Y.-L. Desnos. PolSARpro-BIO The new scientific toolbox for ESA and third party fully polarimetric SAR missions. 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar, EUSAR 2018, Jun 2018, Aachen, Germany. pp.780-783. ⟨hal-01874633⟩