The Use of ALOS-PALSAR Data Associated with Landsat Imagery for Precise Forest Mapping: Tasmanian Pilot

Conference: EUSAR 2010 - 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/07/2010 - 06/10/2010 at Aachen, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2010

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zhou, Zheng-Shu; Lehmann, Eric; Caccetta, Peter (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, Floreat WA 6014, Australia)
McNeill, Stephen (Landcare Research, Lincoln 7640, New Zealand)

Abstract:
The Australian National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) program currently provides the capability for continental monitoring of land cover changes on the basis of historic Landsat imagery. A key aspect related to further developments of such a system includes making use of new technological advancements of radar remote sensing in Earth observation. For developing a globally-applicable methodology for forest mapping and biomass estimation, the potential capabilities and synergies of a combined SAR-optical processing approach are being investigated.