Journal
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 691-695Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2003127
Keywords
Mueller matrix; oil slicks; scattering; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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In this letter, a fully polarimetric electromagnetic model for sea surface Mueller matrix is exploited to characterize the scattering from oil and biogenic slicks, under low-to-moderate wind conditions. The model predicts a completely different scattering mechanism for oil-covered and oil-free sea surface, while biogenic slicks are indistinguishable from sea surface in terms of polarimetric scattering. Following this theoretical rationale, a simple and very effective filtering technique is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sea oil slick observation. Experiments, accomplished over C-band multilook complex SIR-C/X-SAR data, show the effectiveness of the proposed model and the capabilities of the filter to both observe oil slicks and distinguish them from biogenic look-alikes.
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