Multi-baseline SAR Tomography of P-band AfriSAR Data with Phase Screen Correction
Conference: EUSAR 2018 - 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/04/2018 - 06/07/2018 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2018
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Wasik, Valentine; Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale (ONERA, France)
Taillandier, Cedric (Total, France)
Saatchi, Sassan (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
Abstract:
The ESA-sponsored AfriSAR campaign took place in Gabon between 2015 and 2016. It was designed to collect data from tropical forests in order to support the future ESA-BIOMASS mission. This paper addresses the potential of SAR tomography for retrieving vegetation parameters from the multi-baseline P-band airborne data acquired by ONERA over the forest of Lopé. It is shown that a correction of phase disturbances (phase screens) is necessary. A correction procedure based on recent works from the litterature is applied. The tomographic profiles after correction are shown to present good similarities with the available LIDAR data.