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The main objectives were to evaluate the outcome of using high-resolution TerraSAR-X data for classifying PMF and other land covers and to compare classification accuracies based on different synthetic aperture radar bands and polarization parameters. Initially, different polarimetric indices were calculated, while polarimetric decomposition methods were used to obtain the polarimetric decomposition components. Using these polarimetric components as input, the random forest supervised classification algorithm was applied in the classification experiments. Our results show that in this study full-polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data produced the most accurate overall classification (94.81%), indicating that full polarization is vital to distinguishing PMF from other land cover types. Dual polarimetric data had similar levels of classification error for PMF and bare soil, yielding mapping accuracies of 53.28% and 59.48% (TerraSAR-X), and 59.56% and 57.1% (RADARSAT-2), respectively. 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