3D topography and forest recovery from an L-BAND single-pass airborne PolInSAR system

Author

Mercer, Bryan ; Zhang, Qiaoping ; Schwaebisch, Marcus ; Denbina, Michael

Author_Institution

Intermap Technol. Corp., Calgary, AB, Canada

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

Polarimetric InSAR (PolInSAR) using repeat-pass L-Band has generated interest in recent years because of its potential for extraction of forest height and of bare-earth topography beneath the canopy. However temporal de-correlation remains a problem. In previous papers a single-pass system has been demonstrated which removes the temporal issue. In this paper we extend the single-pass PolInSAR work previously described and show results for forests in which tree height maps and corresponding DTMs have been generated and compared to lidar truth.

Keywords

radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); vegetation; 3D topography; DTM; L-band single-pass airborne PolInSAR; bare-earth topography; forest height extraction; forest recovery; polarimetric InSAR; temporal decorrelation; tree height maps; Bandwidth; Biomass; Costs; Data mining; L-band; Laser radar; Licenses; Satellites; Surfaces; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry; Forest; L-Band; PolInSAR; Topography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418224

Filename

5418224