Land-cover mapping using multitemporal, dual-frequency polarimetric SAR data

Author

Skriver, Henning ; Schon, J. ; Dierking, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Danish Center for Remote Sensing, Tech. Univ. Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

331

Abstract

The Danish Center for Remote Sensing (DCRS) is, in collaboration with the Danish mapping agency, conducting a study on topographic mapping using SAR data, and land cover mapping results are presented. The Danish EMISAR system (an L- and C-band, fully polarimetric, airborne SAR) have in 1994 to 1999 during the growing season acquired a lot of data over a Danish agricultural site. The data acquisitions were co-ordinated with ground surveys to obtain a detailed land cover map. The test area contains a large number of different land cover classes, such as more than 10 different crop types, deciduous and coniferous forest types, wetlands, lakes, and urban areas. The data are used to study the classification potential of polarimetric SAR data using the Wishart distributed covariance matrix

Keywords

geophysical techniques; radar polarimetry; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topography (Earth); C-band; Danish Center for Remote Sensing; Danish mapping agency; Denmark; EMISAR; L-band; SAR; Wishart distributed covariance matrix; agricultural site; cartography; crop type; dual-frequency; forest; geophysical measurement technique; land surface; land-cover mapping; multitemporal radar; radar polarimetry; radar remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; topographic mapping; topography; urban area; vegetation mapping; wetland; Backscatter; Covariance matrix; Crops; Data acquisition; Lakes; Optical sensors; Polarization; Remote sensing; Testing; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.860509

Filename

860509