4th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2017

Educational materials from the 4th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2017 held in Frascati, Italy, from 30 January to 2 February 2017. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link.

Welcome and EO missions: 

• Welcome and Opening, C.Stewart (2 MB)
• BIOMASS mission, K.Scipal (4 MB)
• SAOCOM-CS Mission and Airborne Campaigns, M.Davidson ( 3 MB)
• TanDEM-X and TanDEM-L missions, I.Hajnsek (31 MB)
• S1 mission, P.Potin (23 MB)
• Course closure (4 MB)

Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR):

• PolSAR Concepts (Basic and Advanced), E.Pottier (44 MB)
• PolSARpro Practical (18 MB) and datasets (342 MB & 5GB), E.Pottier & C.Stewart
• Sentinel-1 Dual Pol Time Series Practical (927 KB) and datasets (76.5 MB), C.Stewart

Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR):

• Principles and Basics of SAR Interferometry (InSAR) and Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (Pol-InSAR) (theory), I.Hajnsek (15 MB)
• Pol-InSAR practical, I.Hajnsek (3MB)

Polarimetric SAR Tomography (Pol-TomoSAR):

• Pol-TomoSAR Basics, Principles, Spectral Analysis Techniques, Scatterin Mechanisms Decomposition, and Case-studies (theory), L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini, (120 MB)
• Practical,  L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini, (34 MB)