Title :
Multi-baseline polarimetric SAR interferometry for vegetation parameters estimation
Author :
Papathanassion, K.P. ; Cloude, S.R. ; Reiber, A. ; Boerner, W.M.
Author_Institution :
Appl. Electromagnetics, St. Andrews, UK
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the application of polarimetric SAR interferometry for the estimation of forest parameters and show experimental results using fully polarimetric L-band data acquired with the experimental SAR system of DLR (E-SAR)
Keywords :
forestry; geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; E-SAR; InSAR; L-band; SAR; UHF; forest; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; inversion algorithm; land surface; multi-baseline polarimetric SAR interferometry; multibaseline method; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; spaceborne radar; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; vegetation parameters estimation; Decorrelation; Electromagnetic scattering; Extinction coefficients; Interferometry; Parameter estimation; Particle scattering; Polarization; Radar scattering; Scattering parameters; Vegetation;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6359-0
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2000.859707
