Wetland landscape analysis using polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data

Author

Guozhuang Shen ; Jingjuan Liao ; Lu Zhang ; Xinwu Li

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Digital Earth, Center for Earth Obs. & Digital Earth, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

3510

Lastpage

3513

Abstract

This paper analyzes the landscape of Poyang Lake Wetland using RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data acquired on April 7, 2013. H-A-α-Wishart polarimetric SAR data classification method was used to classify the PolSAR data. Then, the landscape was mapped based on the classification result. The landscape was compared to the landscape retrieved from the Landsat ETM+ data acquired on Dec. 26, 1999. To quantify the landscape pattern, the following indices in entire region and different patch type scale were selected to analyze the wetland landscape. The result shows that RADARSAT-2 PolSAR data are suitable for landscape mapping in Poyang Lake Wetland.

Keywords

lakes; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; wetlands; AD 1999 12 26; AD 2013 04 07; China; H-A-alpha-Wishart polarimetric SAR data classification method; Landsat ETM+ data; Poyang Lake wetland landscape pattern; RADARSAT-2 PolSAR data; RADARSAT-2 polarimetric SAR data; landscape mapping; polarimetric RADARSAT-2 data; synthetic aperture radar; wetland landscape analysis; Covariance matrices; Earth; Lakes; Remote sensing; Satellites; Vegetation mapping; Landscape; Landscape indices; PolSAR; Wetland;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947239

Filename

6947239