| SAR | Synthetic aperture radar |
| PTT | Power transmission tower |
| PolSAR | Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar |
| PWF | Polarimetric whitening filter |
| TF | Time-frequency |
| CFAR | Constant false alarm rate |
| CA-CFAR | Cell-averaging constant false alarm rate |
| 2D | Two-dimensional |
| SLC | Single-look complex |
| Probability density function |