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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a high-resolution active microwave remote sensing system for all-weather, day and night, and wide-coverage imaging capability. Since its firstĀ appearance in the 1950s, SAR has gradually developed into an important remote sensing tool. In recent years, SAR technology has made great progress, and Polarization SAR (PolSAR) has become an important trend in the development of microwave imaging remote sensing.
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Yang, R., Dai, B., Tan, L., Liu, X., Yang, Z., Li, H. (2021). Introduction. In: Polarimetric Microwave Imaging. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8897-6_1
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