Monitoring tree farms and coastal environments using RADARSAT-2 PolSAR data

This paper addresses the feasibility of using RADARSAT-2 fine Quad-Pol mode to monitor coastal environment and young tree growth. It will be shown that interferometric coherence may not be high enough for the height estimation of young trees at C-band, but polarimetric sensitivity could be used for tree and crop classification. For coastal environment, we found that polarimetric signature of oyster farm reveals the effect of double bounce scattering and the orientation angle effects.