Title :
Polarimetric SAR interferometry for forest application at P-band: Potentials and challenges
Author :
Lee, Seung-Kuk ; Kugler, Florian ; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos ; Hajnsek, Irena
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Radio Freq. Technol. & Radar Syst., German Aerosp. Center, Wessling, Germany
Abstract :
This paper presents the impact of simulation parameters according to the potential future space-borne mission BIOMASS (P-band) in polarimetric and interferometric SAR (Pol-InSAR) inverison performance. Forest height inversion is obtained from the simulated data sets (bandwidth, NESZ and ambiguities) generated from DLR E-SAR (Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar) airborne SAR data. For this study two campaign data sets (BioSAR 2007 / INDREX-II) have been selected and investigated. The several comparative results of Pol-InSAR between airborne data and the simulated data (incl. bandwidth, NESZ and range/azimuth ambiguities) will be shown and discussed.
Keywords :
forestry; geophysical signal processing; height measurement; inverse problems; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; BIOMASS spaceborne mission; BioSAR 2007 data set; DLR E-SAR; INDREX-II data set; P-band polarimetric SAR interferometry; Pol-InSAR inverison performance; airborne SAR data; experimental synthetic aperture radar; forest application; forest height inversion; simulation parameters; Azimuth; Bandwidth; Biomass; Biosensors; Frequency estimation; Performance analysis; Radar polarimetry; Radio interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar; Testing; BIOMASS; P-band; PolInSAR; Simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417609
