Full Polarimetry versus Partial Polarimetry for Quantitative Surface Parameter Estimation

Abstract

The performance difference between full polarimetric (fp) and partial polarimetric (pp) systems is still an important open question, specially in the frame of future low-cost spaceborne SAR studies. The aim of this paper is to briefly present a fully polarimetric model, the recent F-Bragg model, and to compare it to its restriction to partial polarimetry. In a second step the inversion possibilities of fp and pp F-Bragg are investigated.