Preliminary studies for a vegetation ladar/lidar space mission in france

Author

Durrieu, S. ; Cherchali, S. ; Costeraste, J. ; Mondin, L. ; Debise, H. ; Chazette, P. ; Dauzat, J. ; Gastellu-Etchegorry, Jean-Philippe ; Baghdadi, Nicolas ; Pelissier, R.

Author_Institution

Irstea-UMR TETIS Irstea-Cirad-AgroParisTech, Montpellier, France

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

4332

Lastpage

4335

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of French studies realized in the frame of the CNES (French Space Agency) working group on spaceborne lidar missions. These studies include (1) the development of forest scenery and radiative transfer models for the simulation of lidar waveforms under forest cover, (2) preliminary instrumental studies to ensure the feasibility of the scientific requirements and (3) evaluation and improvement of inversion methods to retrieve forest parameters from large footprint lidar data.

Keywords

optical radar; radiative transfer; remote sensing by laser beam; vegetation mapping; CNES mission; France; French Space Agency; forest cover; forest scenery; radiative transfer model; spaceborne lidar mission; vegetation ladar space mission; vegetation lidar space mission; working group; Atmospheric modeling; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Instruments; Laser radar; Remote sensing; Vegetation mapping; Spaceborne vegetation lidar; biomass; carbon stock; forest; fullwaveform lidar; remote sensing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723793

Filename

6723793