BIOMASS Tomography: Temporal Decorrelation Performance in the Tropical Forest
Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Dinh, Ho Tong Minh (Centre d'Etude Spatiale de la Biosphère (CESBIO), France)
Tebaldini, Stefano; Rocca, Fabio (DEIB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Le Toan, Thuy (Centre d'Etude Spatiale de la Biosphere (CESBIO), France)
Abstract:
The objective of this paper is to provide a better understanding of the impact of temporal decorrelation on BIOMASS tomographic processing. This was evaluated by generating a BIOMASS data stack that accounts for both the 6 MHz bandwidth limit and temporal decorrelation. To this aim, we developed a simulator, which allows us to generate a temporal BIOMASS data stack by combining 3-D high resolution data from TropiSAR and the temporal decorrlation from TropiScat data-sets. The resulting tomograms and forest heights were observed to change acceptably as long as the revisit time is 4 days or less. Therefore, the revisit time for the BIOMASS tomographic phase at 3-4 days as proposed should be feasible.