AbstractIn this paper the capability of coherence patterns obtained from interferometric SAR (InSAR) for tropical rain forest monitoring are evaluated by using C-band and L-band SAR. The test site is a southern part of Sumatra Island with 50 by 50 km coverage. Several repeat-pass data pairs by JERS and ERS and tandem pairs by ERS are used to compare the coherence patterns between L-band and C-band SAR. The coherence patterns are evaluated for the following three items; coincidence with deforested areas, capability for land cover classification, and spatial frequency component. The result indicates that the capability of coherence by JERS repeat-pass pairs is almost compatible to that of coherence by ERS tandem pairs, while the capability by ERS repeat-pass pairs is relatively very poor. The result strongly supports the usefulness of the repeat-pass L-band InSAR for the purpose of tropical rain forest monitoring.


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    Title :

    A comparative study of coherence patterns in C-band and L-band interferometric SAR from tropical rain forest areas


    Contributors:
    Takeuchi, S. (author) / Oguro, Y. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 32 , 11 ; 2305-2310


    Publication date :

    2002-12-15


    Size :

    6 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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