P-, L- and C-band polarimetric radar measurements of coastal zone forest and other surface covers

Author

Wu, Shih-Tseng

Author_Institution

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, AL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

18-21 Aug 1993

Firstpage

1219

Abstract

Several synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data sets were acquired over the coastal zone of Louisiana and Mississippi, since 1978´s Seasat SAR to 1991´s NASA DC-8-borned P-, L- and C-band full polarization AIRSAR. With more than 15 years of experience on the analyses of these data sets, coastal zone surface features delineation would be most desirable to use ecologically-oriented surface covers. Those vegetation species-oriented surface covers classification may be pertinent for forest inventory and pine plantation biomass estimation, but not suitable for coastal zone environment. The author needs to take full advantage of the dynamic range of SAR data for the delineation of a variety of surface features ranging from detection of shadow-water sediments to swamp forest with standing water

Keywords

feature extraction; geophysical techniques; image recognition; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1978 to 1992; Louisiana; Mississippi; SAR; SHF UHF microwave; USA; United States; biomass estimation; feature delineation; image classification; land surface; landcover; radar remote sensing; surface cover; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation forest forestry; vegetation mapping geophysical measurement technique; Biomass; Computer vision; Data analysis; Dynamic range; NASA; Polarization; Radar measurements; Sea measurements; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1993. IGARSS '93. Better Understanding of Earth Environment., International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1240-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1993.322115

Filename

322115