Analysis and Validity of the PolInSAR Line Model on Forested Areas
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
Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title
Authors:
López-Martínez, Carlos; Fabregas, Xavier; Alonso-González, Alberto (Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSLab), Signal Theory and Communications Dept. (TSC), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain)
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the analysis of certain hypotheses considered in quantitative remote sensing of forest areas by means of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry (PolInSAR). When addressing the quantitative estimation of forest parameters in PolInSAR, the estimation is usually based on the inversion of the Random Volume over Ground (RVoG) coherent scattering model. We present an study of the validity of this assumption, based on the analysis of the measured data and the coherence region resulting from the variation of the interferometric coherence as a function of polarization.