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However, optical satellites struggle to effectively play a monitoring role in the tropical and subtropical regions, where there are many clouds and rain all year round. As an active microwave sensor, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has a long wavelength and can penetrate clouds and fog to varying degrees, making it very suitable for monitoring the impervious surface in such areas. With the development of SAR remote sensing technology, a more advanced and more complex SAR imaging model, namely, polarimetric SAR, has been developed, which can provide more scattering information of ground objects and is conducive to improving the extraction accuracy of impervious surface. However, the current research on impervious surface extraction using SAR data mainly focuses on the use of SAR image intensity or amplitude information, and rarely on the use of phase and polarization information. To bridge this gap, based on Sentinel-1 dual-polarized data, we selected UNet, HRNet, and Deeplabv3+ as impervious surface extraction models; and we input the intensity, coherence, and polarization features of SAR images into the respective impervious surface extraction models to discuss their specific performances in urban impervious surface extraction. The experimental results show that among the intensity, coherence, and polarization features, intensity is the most useful feature in the extraction of urban impervious surface based on SAR images. We also analyzed the limitations of extracting an urban impervious surface based on SAR images, and give a simple and effective solution. 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