Relating TanDEM-X Local InSAR Phase Center Variations to Lidar Full Waveforms over Forest Scenarios

Conference: EUSAR 2018 - 12th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/04/2018 - 06/07/2018 at Aachen, Germany

Proceedings: EUSAR 2018

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Choi, Changhyun; Pardini, Matteo; Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P. (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany)
Armston, John; Dubayah, Ralph (University of Maryland, USA)

Abstract:
NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is the next-generation full waveform Lidar mission promising to provide measurements of forest vertical structure and biomass globally after its deployment on the ISS in 2019. Towards enhanced structural products, the potentials of the combination of X-band TanDEM-X single-pass interferometric coherences and Lidar waveforms are currently being investigated. In this work, experi-mental results are shown and discussed with the objective of relating the spatial variation (at a given scale) of the interferometric phase center and Lidar waveform attributes in different forest ecosystems.