Fully Polarimetric, High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Set for Albuquerque, New Mexico

There is a lack of available high-resolution (< 0.3048-meter) data available for PolSAR phenomenology research. The data set presented consists of 39 PolSAR image sets with 0.12-meter (~4.7-inch) resolution and is the result of two different collection campaigns. Much of the data set was collected in the summer of 2013 to support geospatial/temporal analytics as part of a Grand Challenge Lab Directed Research and Development project at Sandia National Labs (SNL). The remainder of the data set was collected in the spring of 2015 to support general PolSAR research within SNL.

The data set presented was collected with SNL’s airborne fully-polarimetric X-band radar system and contains a variety of natural and cultural clutter environments with scene content ranging from agricultural fields to urbanized cities collected throughout the greater Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. region. The data set supports studying high-resolution scattering physics from different types of clutter and applications such as polarimetric-based terrain classification.