A Three-Hierarchy Evaluation of Polarimetric Performance of GF-3, Compared with ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 and RADARSAT-2

GaoFen-3 (GF-3) is the first Chinese civilian multi-polarization synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, launched on 10 August of 2016, and put into operation at the end of January 2017. The polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) system of GF-3 is able to provide quad-polarization (quad-pol) images in a variet...

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Main Authors: Zezhong Wang, Jian Jiao, Qiming Zeng, Junyi Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/7/1493