Course Material for Teachers

In addition to the polarimetry tutorial, this series of slide shows explains the basics of polarimetry and is made available to support taught courses or for use as part of a self-teaching programme.

The slide shows are in PDF format, for which you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. They can be viewed online from this page or are available directly within the software GUI.

To watch a slide show, click on a heading below.

Introduction (4.5Mb)

Polarimetric Sensors

Airborne Sensors (7.0Mb)
Spaceborne Sensors (5.0Mb)

Wave Polarimetry (1.1Mb)
Scattering Polarimetry (3.5Mb)
Polarimetric Remote Sensing (700kb)
Speckle Filtering (1.3Mb)

Polarimetric Decomposition Theorems

Introduction (350kb)
Krogager (2.3Mb)
Huynen – Barnes (4.0Mb)
Cloude – Holm (4.0Mb)
Freeman – Van Zyl (3.5Mb)
Cloude - Pottier (7.0Mb)

PolSAR Segmentation (13.0Mb)
PolInSAR Segmentation (6.5Mb)
Non-Stationary Scattering Analysis (3.0Mb)

Conclusion (1.2Mb)

Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry