Opportunities of snow property extraction based on single and multi pass SAR interferometry: TanDEM-X

Author

Leinss, Silvan ; Hajnsek, Irena

Author_Institution

Inst. of Environ. Eng., ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

149

Abstract

The combination of interferometry and polarimetry (PolInSAR) is a promising candidate for estimating the snow volume using the Random Volume over Ground model (RVoG). The model was originally developed for forest height determination using L-band [1]. The adaption of the RVoG model to snow is not straight forward due to the thin volume of snow and the highly varying penetration depth of X-band microwaves. In this paper we show parameter ranges and recommendation where the RVoG model might work, together with results of interferometry (InSAR) and polarimetric SAR (Pol-InSAR) using TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X SAR acquisitions.

Keywords

hydrological techniques; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; snow; synthetic aperture radar; L-band radar; PolInSAR; RVoG; TanDEM-X SAR acquisitions; TerraSAR-X acquisitions; X-band microwaves; forest height determination; multipass SAR interferometry; penetration depth; polarimetric SAR; radar interferometry; radar polarimetry; random volume over ground model; single pass SAR interferometry; snow property extraction; snow volume estimation; Atmospheric modeling; Coherence; Interferometry; Snow; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; InSAR; Pol-InSAR; Snow; TanDEM-X;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351616

Filename

6351616