Crop classification using SENTINEL-1A SLC data

you are right. The pattern should not persist in the multi-looked image.

I found that the difference is the selection of input bands:

Left: Intensity was selected (see below), right: no input band was selected.

Selection for the left image:
grafik
Only intensity bands remain in the product.

Selection for the right image:
grafik
Intensity and i+q remain in the product.