Compact PolInSAR for vegetation characterisation

Author

Angelliaume, Sébastien ; Dubois-Fernandez, Pascale ; Souyris, Jean-Claude

Author_Institution

Office Nat. d´´Etude et de Recherches Aerospatiales, Salon Air

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

1136

Lastpage

1138

Abstract

In this paper, we analyse the potential associated with a compact polarimetry (CP) P band spaceborne SAR system. Indeed, this architecture allows polarimetric acquisition without the usual reduction in swath. The CP data is shown to be almost equivalent to the full polarimetric data over extended targets, and the PolInSAR analysis can be performed without a significant loss of performance.

Keywords

ionospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; RVoG model; compact PolInSAR; compact polarimetry P band spaceborne SAR; ionospheric effect; swath reduction; vegetation characterisation; Biomass; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Frequency; Instruments; Radar polarimetry; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; Vegetation mapping; PolInSAR; RVoG model; compact polarimetry; ionospheric effect; vegetation characterisation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423003

Filename

4423003