Polarimetric SAR Calibration and Processing Tool V1.0: A Tool for Polarimetric Calibration and Processing of SAR Data

Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) has been widely used as an active imaging remote sensing technique to characterize manmade and natural features. The PolSAR data needs to be corrected from the polarimetric distortions to minimize the ambiguities for the accurate information retrieval of scatterers. The present work is focused on the minimization of system-induced and atmosphere-induced errors from PolSAR data. A new software Polarimetric SAR Calibration & Processing Tool v1.0 (PSCP v1.0) has been introduced for processing of fully polarimetric and hybrid polarimetric SAR data. The PSCP v1.0, a software tool will be available for the scientific community to calibrate and process the fully polarimetric and the hybrid polarimetric space borne and airborne SAR data of current and future missions of ISRO, India and also for other space agencies.