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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 52, 期 10, 页码 6404-6422出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2296533
关键词
Forest; forest height; forest parameter; interferometry; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol-InSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM-X; TerraSAR-X; X-band
TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X platforms form together the first spaceborne single-pass polarimetric interferometer in space. This allows, for the first time, the acquisition of spaceborne polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol-InSAR) data without the disturbing effect of temporal decorrelation. This paper aims to assess the potential of such data for forest applications. For this, single- and dual-pol data acquired over a boreal, a temperate, and a tropical site were investigated to characterize X-band penetration and polarization diversity of the interferometric coherence measurements. Pol-InSAR forest height inversion schemes have been proposed and implemented for the single-and dual-pol cases and cross validated against LIDAR reference measurements for all sites. The single-pol inversion relies on an external ground digital terrain model (DTM) and performed well for all sites with correlation coefficients r(2) between 0.80 and 0.98. The dual-pol inversion does not require an external DTM but depends on the visibility of the whole forest layer. Accordingly, its performance varied with forest structure and season: The best performance was achieved for the summer acquisition of the boreal test site (r(2) = 0.86) and for the winter acquisition of the temperate test site (r(2) = 0.77). For the tropical test site, only a weak correlation (r(2) = similar to 0.50) could be established.
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