Forest Diff-Tomo Functionalities: Tests of Robust Tomography and Separation of Dynamic Processes

Conference: EUSAR 2012 - 9th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
04/23/2012 - 04/26/2012 at Nuremberg, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2012

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Lombardini, Fabrizio; Cai, Francesco (University of Pisa, Dept. of Information Engineering, via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy)

Abstract:
Techniques based on the coherent combination of complex (i.e. amplitude and phase) SAR data can extract rich information on complex scenarios with multiple scatterers mapped in the SAR cell. Multipass/multibaseline “4D” Differential Tomography is a promising advancement in this field, furnishing space-time signatures of multiple scatterer dynamics in the SAR cell. Evolutions and extended P-band tests are presented of new recently derived Diff-Tomo based functionalities for the separation of heights, temporal decorrelation mechanisms, and deformation velocities in forest scenarios, characterized by a temporal decorrelating canopy scatterer, in layover with a ground scattererer, possibly subsiding.