Canopy classification with S-band polarimetric SAR data

Author

Guida, Raffaella ; Natale, Antonio ; Bird, Rachel ; Whittaker, Philip ; Cohen, Martin ; Hall, David

Author_Institution

Surrey Space Centre, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

6535

Lastpage

6538

Abstract

New Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions in S-band are currently under design but the potential performance of this microwave frequency is still under discussion. This paper presents the outcomes of a study on canopy classification carried out with fully polarimetric S- and X-band datasets contemporaneously acquired by the Astrium airborne SAR demonstrator. Classical polarimetric decompositions have been applied to investigate the S-band capabilities in vegetation monitoring and preliminary results are here presented.

Keywords

geophysical image processing; geophysical techniques; image classification; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; Astrium airborne SAR demonstrator; S-band polarimetric SAR data; SAR missions; canopy classification; classical polarimetric decompositions; microwave frequency; polarimetric S-band dataset; polarimetric X-band dataset; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation monitoring; Agriculture; Calibration; Monitoring; Spaceborne radar; Spatial resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation mapping; S-band; SAR; canopy; classification; polarimetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352103

Filename

6352103