Forest parameter retrieval from PolInSAR data at L and P band
Conference: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
05/16/2006 - 05/18/2006 at Dresden, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2006
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale; Garestier, Franck; Dupuis, Xavier (ONERA, France)
Champion, Isabelle (INRA, France)
Paillou, Philippe (Observatoire Astronomique de Bordeaux, France)
Abstract:
A polarimetric and PolInSAR analysis has been conducted on the Nezer forest (Southern France) at L and P band on high resolution SAR data acquired with the ONERA RAMSES system in January 2004. The P and L band data was acquired simultaneously and several tracks with the same route were flown in order to allow multi-pass interferometry processing. We processed different couples characterised by different baselines. In the paper, we present the dataset and describe the PolInSAR inversion procedure specially adapted to P band data. The dataset was investigated for its potential for retrieval of forest parameters from SAR data using three different techniques: - Radiometric inversion from the cross-polarized term, - PolInSAR inversion based on the random-volume over ground model - An approach based on the anisotropy parameter. This paper concentrated on PolInSAR inversion whereas a sister paper in this conference describes the polarimetric and radiometric approaches.