On the sensitivity of measured backscattering properties to variations of incidence angle and baselines in tomographic SAR data

SAR tomography at L — and P-bands reveals 3-D structural information of forested areas. A drawback, however, are the large number of samples, i.e. overflights, typically used for such configurations. Based on two fully-polarimetric tomographic SAR data sets, at L — and P-bands, we analyze the sensitivity of backscattering from a forest volume as measured by means of SAR tomography with respect to (1) a reduction of the total baseline by subsequently reducing the number of baselines, and (2), with respect to a variation of the incidence angle. In this paper, an excerpt of this sensitivity analysis is presented and discussed.