Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1114-1
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723793
