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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2016
Conocophillips Company, Houston, TX (US);
Khalid A. Soofi, Houston, TX (US);
Sarah E. Terry, Houston, TX (US);
Manuel A. Prado, Houston, TX (US);
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method for processing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data includes acquiring a multi-polarization SAR image of a terrestrial region, pre-processing the SAR image to remove or reduce radiometric and geometric errors, and separating the SAR image into a plurality of channels, each channel representing an image associated with a different polarization mode. The method also includes calculating a characteristic of the region for each polarization channel, acquiring ground data and estimating the characteristic of the region based on the ground data, estimating a correlation of the calculated characteristic for each polarization channel with the estimated characteristic based on the ground data, selecting one or more polarization channels having a correlation exceeding a selected value, and generating a SAR image including only the selected polarization channels based on the comparison.