Polarimetric SAR interferometry for forest application at P-band: Potentials and challenges

Author

Lee, Seung-Kuk ; Kugler, Florian ; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos ; Hajnsek, Irena

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Freq. Technol. & Radar Syst., German Aerosp. Center, Wessling, Germany

Volume

4

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

This paper presents the impact of simulation parameters according to the potential future space-borne mission BIOMASS (P-band) in polarimetric and interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) inverison performance. Forest height inversion is obtained from the simulated data sets (bandwidth, NESZ and ambiguities) generated from DLR E-SAR (Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar) airborne SAR data. For this study two campaign data sets (BioSAR 2007 / INDREX-II) have been selected and investigated. The several comparative results of Pol-InSAR between airborne data and the simulated data (incl. bandwidth, NESZ and range/azimuth ambiguities) will be shown and discussed.

Keywords

forestry; geophysical signal processing; height measurement; inverse problems; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; BIOMASS spaceborne mission; BioSAR 2007 data set; DLR E-SAR; INDREX-II data set; P-band polarimetric SAR interferometry; Pol-InSAR inverison performance; airborne SAR data; experimental synthetic aperture radar; forest application; forest height inversion; simulation parameters; Azimuth; Bandwidth; Biomass; Biosensors; Frequency estimation; Performance analysis; Radar polarimetry; Radio interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; BIOMASS; P-band; PolInSAR; Simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417609

Filename

5417609