DocumentCode
2852885
Title
Assessing Vegetation Scattering Mechanisms of L-band AIRSAR Data on Sloping Forest Area
Author
Park, Sang-Eun ; Moon, Wooil M.
Author_Institution
Sch. of Earth & Environ. Sci., Seoul Nat., Univ., Seoul
fYear
2006
fDate
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
Firstpage
489
Lastpage
492
Abstract
In this paper an improvement of radiative transfer models that accounts for the depolarizing ground scattering and tilted scattering surface is presented to model vegetation scattering mechanisms. This study is implemented with the real L-band NASA (JPL) AIRSAR data in Jeju volcanic island. The vegetation scattering model in sloping surface is adequate to assess slight changes in microwave scattering mechanisms and to interpret the physical characteristics of eigen-parameters of the coherency matrix in sloping vegetated area.
Keywords
vegetation; Jeju volcanic island; L-band AIRSAR data; NASA JPL data; depolarizing ground scattering; microwave scattering mechanisms; radiative transfer models; sloping forest area; tilted scattering surface; vegetation scattering mechanisms; Backscatter; Covariance matrix; L-band; Microwave imaging; NASA; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Surface topography; Vegetation mapping;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9510-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.130
Filename
4241277
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