Abstract:A novel method which is called polarimetric-ESPRIT (P-ESPRIT) algorithm is presented for full-polarization scattering center extraction and parameter estimation. The P-ESPRIT algorithm is a joint processing of polarization and super-resolution. It is able to estimate the number, positions, intensities and normalized scattering matrices of scattering centers instantaneously rather than the one which extracts parameters from each channel separately, and its performance is better than the latter because the fully-polarized information is used. It has computational advantage over other methods like MUSIC and ML because it needn’t search. The validity is proved by the experimental results based on simulated and real data.