Reconstruction of Full-Pol SAR Data from Partialpol Data Using Deep Neural Networks.

We propose a deep neural networks based method to reconstruct full polarimetric (full-pol) information from single polarimetric (single-pol) SAR data. It consists of two parts: feature extractor which is used to obtain multi-scale multi-layer features of targets in single-pol gray image, and feature translator that converts the geometric features to defined polarimetric feature space. The proposed method is demonstrated on L-band UAVSAR of NASA/JPL images over San Diego, CA, and New Orleans LA, USA. Both qualitative and quantitative results show the reconstructed full-pol images agree well with true full-pol images, the proposed networks have a good spatial robustness. Model-based target decomposition and unsupervised classification can be used directly on constructed full-pol images.