5th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019

Educational materials from the 5th ESA Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry 2019 held in Frascati, Italy, on 22-25 January 2019. Download specific blocks here below or access the full theory and practicals from the window left side link.

Welcome and EO missions 

• Welcome to ESA, D.Fernandez (6.2 MB)
• S1 mission, B.Rosich (6.2 MB)
• COSMO SkyMed Second Generation, L.Dini (1.4 MB)
• TanDEM-X and TanDEM-L missions, I.Hajnsek (14.1 MB)
• BIOMASS mission, K.Scipal (5.5 MB)

Polarimetric SAR:

• PolSAR materials (762 MB), which includes: PolSAR Concepts (Basic and Advanced) (theory), E.Pottier
• Crop monitoring with dual pol Sentinel-1 data: time series analysis and crop classification (practical) (16.6 MB)

Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (53 MB), which includes:

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

Polarimetric SAR Tomography (85 MB) which includes:

• Pol-TomoSAR introduction, Tomographic SAR principles, Phase calibration, Correlation tomography, SARSIM databases, Spectral Analysis Techniques, and TomoSAR case studies (theory), L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini
• Practical,  L.Ferro-Famil & S.Tebaldini