Polarimetric target decomposition and physical interpretation of NASA (JPL) AIRSAR data in mountainous terrain

Author

Park, Sang-Eun ; Moon, Wooil M.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Earth & Environ. Sci., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

2605

Abstract

Two types of polarimetric Target Decomposition (TD) theories were used to investigate the effects of surface slopes on the physical scattering mechanisms over mountainous scattering surfaces. This study is implemented with the L- & P-band NASA (JPL) airborne SAR (AIRSAR) data, which was acquired during PACRIM-II Korea campaign in September 2000. Although the dominant scattering mechanism of mountainous forest area is volume scattering in pine forest scattering surface, detailed scattering mechanism varies with respect to the local incidence angle variations due to the local topography and wavelength.

Keywords

airborne radar; forestry; geophysical techniques; radar cross-sections; radar imaging; radar polarimetry; radar theory; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; AD 2000 09; Korea; L-band; NASA AIRSAR; P-band; PACRIM-II; SAR; UHF; VHF; airborne radar; backscatter; canopy; complex topography; forest; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; incidence angle; land surface; mountain surface slope; mountainous forest; mountainous terrain; physical interpretation; physical scattering mechanism; pine forest; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; radar scattering; synthetic aperture radar; target decomposition; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; volume scattering; Azimuth; Backscatter; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Entropy; L-band; Matrix decomposition; NASA; Polarization; Radar scattering; Surface topography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7536-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1026715

Filename

1026715