The 2020 IEEE-GRSS Young Professionals & ISPRS Student Consortium Brazil Summer School
Basics of SAR Polarimetry
Dr. Carlos Lopez-Martinez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

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Summary

Nowadays, many spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems acquiere polarimetric data. These range from systems presenting fully polarimetric acquisition modes, as for instance TerraSAR-X (X-Band), RADARSAT-2 (C-Band), ALOS-2 (L-band), SAOCOM (L-band) or the future missions BIOMASS (P-band) or NISAR (L&Sbands), to systems presenting dual or compact polarimetric modes, as for example Sentinel-1a&b (C-band dual polarimetric) or RCM (C-band). Respect to single-channel SAR data, Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) data allows an improved characterization of the targets being observed, especially in terms of their geometry and their water content, hence offering a better physical description. The objective of this presentation is to introduce, in a didactic and enjoyable way, the concept of polarization and the basics of PolSAR, how to interpret the physical information contained in PolSAR data, the particularities of dual or compact PolSAR data compared to fully polarimetric data and the main applications, all of them with examples based on real PolSAR data from the main spaceborne systems.
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About the Speaker

Dr. Carlos Lopez-Martinez (S’97-M’04-SM’11) received the MSc. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Lopez-Martinez is Associate Professor in the area of remote sensing and microwave technology in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He has a large professional international experience at DLR (Germany), at the University of Rennes 1 (France), and as a group leader of the Remote Sensing and Natural Resources Modelling team in the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (Luxembourg). His research interests include Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) theory, statistics and applications, multidimensional SAR, radar polarimetry, physical parameter inversion, advanced digital signal processing, estimation theory, and harmonic analysis. He is an associate editor of the IEEE-JSTARS journal and the MDPI Remote Sensing, acting also as invited guest editor for several special issues. He has collaborated in the Spanish PAZ and the ESA’s SAOCOM-CS missions, in the proposal of the Parsifal mission and he is member of the ESA’s Sentinel ROSE-L Mission Advisory Group. He was appointed vice-president of the IEEE-GRSS Spanish chapter, and in 2016 he became its secretary and treasurer. From 2011 Dr. López-Martínez collaborates with the IEEE-GRSS Globalization initiative in Latin America, contributing to the creation of the IEEE-GRSS Chilean chapter and the organization of the 2020 LAGIRSS conference, being appointed as Latin America liaison in 2019. He is also co-chair of the Tutorial Technical Committee of the Indian 2020 InGARSS conference.
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The 2020 IEEE-GRSS Young Professionals & ISPRS Student Consortium Summer School is an joint event organized and hosted annually in Brazil and supported by the two main international organizations in the field of remote sensing, namely, IEEE-GRSS and ISPRS.

Originally planned to be held in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais in 2020 but due to the challenging situation of COVID-19, the sixth edition of the summer school was converted to a virtual event, with the theme “Emerging Trends in Remote Sensing Science and Applied Machine Learning.”
The event was organized in several talks delivered every week, starting from October 16 to December 11.

The summer school aims to guide the career of young professionals as well as higher education professionals, students of courses related to the profession and graduate students who make use of remote sensing data and imagery. It consists of lectures and interactive sessions given and moderated by prominent professionals who work in the industry, teaching/research institutions and in academia.
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About the ISPRS SC

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Student Consortium (ISPRS SC) is the official representation of the students and the youth to ISPRS. The main purpose of the ISPRS SC is to link students, young researchers and professionals in different countries, who are interested in photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences. ISPRS SC also aims to provide a platform for exchange of information and to organize student-specific events and other activities that integrate students and the youth more effectively into ISPRS activities.
For more information about the ISPRS SC, please visit our website: [ Ссылка ]

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