Uncertainty Quantification in Synthetic Aperture Radar Remote Sensing Data Processing

摘要

A new methodology, based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Guide to the expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), for the analysis of uncertainties in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) remote sensing data is presented. The principal idea is to assess the sources of uncertainty, developing computational approaches to propagate uncertainties through the whole SAR signal processing chain. The final goal is to construct uncertainties budgets to quantify the total uncertainty of SAR products, permitting their `trace-ability' to international reference standards.