General Information

This plugin generates derived SAR parameters (viz. vegetation indices, polarimetric decomposition parameters) from input polarimetric matrix (C3, T3, C2, T2).

Installation

Note

PolSAR tools requires QGIS version >=3.0.

  • The easiest way (requires internet connection) :

    • Open QGIS -> Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins… –> select All tab -> search for PolSAR tools –> select and install plugin

  • Alternative way (offline installation) :

    • Go to releases of PolSAR tools -> select desired version -> download the .zip file.

    • Open QGIS -> Plugins -> Manage and Install Plugins… –> install from ZIP tab –> select the downloaded zip –> install plugin (ignore warnings, if any).

Up and running

After successful installation, find the plugin by opening QGIS –> Plugins –> PolSAR tools –> Process. As shown in the following figure.

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Opening the plugin

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GUI-Main window layout

Layout:

  1. Data type tabs: Functions are arranged according to the data dype (full-, compact- and dual-pol).

  2. Function detials viewer: Contains list of functions for respective data tab.

  3. Derived arameter selection, required input variables and constraints.

  4. Input data folder

  5. Logger: displays the log of procesing parameters

  6. progressbar: displays the progress of current task.

  7. Credits and quick help.

Additional reset button to clear the envirinment, view data button to import the data into QGIS environment and Process button to start processing after selecting valid input data variables.

Available functionalities

PolSAR tools plugin currently supports all the Full, compact and dual plarimetric functionalities avaialbel in polsartools python package. A complete list of functiones can be found here

Example usage

Note

All the following processing steps should be done in sequential manner. Sample data for all the polarization modes is provided in [sample_data](/sample_data/) folder.

STEP 1: Open the plugin as explained in Up and running section.

STEP 2: Select the polarimetric data type (Full/compact/dual).

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Selecting the polarimetric mode

STEP 3: Select the parameter/descriptor from the dropdown menu.

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Selecting the polarimetric descriptor

STEP 4: Provide the required input variables.

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Selecting the input variables

STEP 5: Select the input matrix folder.

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Selecting the input folder

STEP 6: Wait for the logger to prompt `->> Ready to process.` –> click process

Note

Do not click process button more than once while it is processing. It may crash the QGIS and the plugin. It is possible that the plugin may show not responding for larger datasets but please wait for the process to complete.

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Processing the data for selected descriptor

STEP 7 (optional): Click view data to import the data into QGIS for vizualisation of the generated descriptors.

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Importing the data into QGIS for visualization

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Imported data in QGIS

Contributions

  1. Contribute to the software

  2. Report issues or problems with the software