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
fDate :
July 31 2006-Aug. 4 2006
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006. IGARSS 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9510-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2006.130
