Feasibility analysis of hemi-boreal forest biomass estimation using Tomo-SAR

Author

Li Wenmei ; Chen Erxue ; Li Zengyuan ; Zhang Wangfei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Geogr. & Biol. Inf., Nanjing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Nanjing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

1871

Lastpage

1874

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the feasibility of hemi-boreal forest above ground biomass (AGB) estimation based on Tomo-SAR technique. Repeat-path multi-baseline P-band Pol-InSAR data collected during March and May, 2007 in Remningstorp test site is used. The result shows that the correlation coefficient (R) of P-band HH backscattering coefficient reaches 0.87 with the in-situ forest biomass. The R of P-band VV backscattering power at 5m and 10m is 0.71, 0.72 with the in-situ forest biomass, respectively.

Keywords

radar interferometry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; vegetation mapping; AD 2007 03 to 05; P-band HH backscattering coefficient; P-band VV backscattering power; Remningstorp test site; Tomo-SAR technique; correlation coefficient; feasibility analysis; hemiboreal forest above ground biomass estimation; in-situ forest biomass; repeat-path multibaseline P-band Pol-InSAR data; Accuracy; Backscatter; Biomass; Estimation; Synthetic aperture radar; Tomography; Pol-InSAR; Tomo-SAR; forest biomass; hemi-boreal forest;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946821

Filename

6946821