Clearcut Mapping for Sustainable Forest Management using TerraSAR-X Imagery

Author

Molinier, Matthieu ; Rauste, Yrjö ; Häme, Tuomas

Author_Institution

VTT Tech. Res. Centre of Finland

Volume

4

fYear

2008

fDate

7-11 July 2008

Abstract

The potential of TerraSAR-X imagery for forest cutting monitoring was experimentally investigated in images over Kuortane, Finland. In this study, 10 dual-polarised change detection indices were tested versus a ground truth of clearcuts done between the acquisition dates. Preliminary results suggest the decrease of entropy and the increase of coherence at X-band could be good change detection indices. Results were probably affected by adverse weather conditions during the acquisition of the second scene.

Keywords

X-ray imaging; forestry; sustainable development; vegetation mapping; Finland; Kuortane; TerraSAR-X imagery; X-band; adverse weather conditions; clearcut mapping; coherence increase; dual-polarised change detection indices; entropy decrease; forest cutting monitoring; ground truth; sustainable forest management; Azimuth; Backscatter; Earth; Layout; Management information systems; Minerals; Monitoring; Snow; Soil; Testing; Change detection; SAR; TerraSAR-X; clearcuts; dual-polarisation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2807-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2808-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779805

Filename

4779805