Tropical forests are complex, heterogeneous, dense, remote and changing forest ecosystems. Low frequency synthetic aperture Radar (SAR) techniques allow monitoring and potentially estimation of key forest parameters such as vertical structure (height) and biomass. In the frame of INDREX-II repeat-pass SAR data in quad-pol mode (at L, and P Band) SAR data were acquired and simultaneously ground measurements have been collected. One of the most important - for a wide range of applications - forest parameter is biomass. Biomass appears to be more or less directly related to forest height, which can be estimated from model based inversion of polarimetric and interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) data. Indeed, successful height inversion has been demonstrated in several airborne experiments over temperate and boreal forests. In this paper results of model-based L and P Band Pol-InSAR data inversion over tropical forest are shown, including validation against ground measurements.


    Access

    Download


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    INDREX-II - Tropical Forest Height Estimation with L- and P-Band Polarimetric Interferometric SAR


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2006 ; Dresden, Germany



    Publication date :

    2006-05-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Sensitivity Analysis for Forest Interferometric, Polarimetric Observables Estimation

    Ruiz, C. / Borderies, P. / European Space Agency | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005


    Forest Classification Based on L-Band Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR Data

    Lee, J. S. / Grunes, M. R. / Ainsworth, T. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2005


    Multibaseline Polarimetric SAR Interferometry Forest Height Inversion Approaches

    Lee, S.K. / Kugler, F. / Papathanassiou, K. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2011


    Estimation of Forest Structure, Ground, and Canopy Layer Characteristics From Multibaseline Polarimetric Interferometric SAR Data

    Neumann, Maxim / Ferro-Famil, Laurent / Reigber, Andreas | German Aerospace Center (DLR) | 2010

    Free access

    Interferometric and Polarimetric Interferometric Experiments with ALOS PALSAR Data

    Pasquali, P. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2008