Decadal change in northern wetlands based on differential analysis of JERS and PALSAR data

Author

Whitcomb, J. ; Moghaddam, M. ; McDonald, K. ; Podest, E. ; Chapman, B.

Author_Institution

Radiat. Lab., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

Abstract

We have been developing a continental-scale map of the North American boreal wetlands based on L-Band SAR imagery collected in 1997-1998 by the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS). The map currently covers the entire state of Alaska, identifying up to nine wetlands classes and two uplands classes. We have also recently obtained and classified a region of L-Band SAR imagery collected in 2007 by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array L-Band SAR (PALSAR). Herein, we compare the results of the PALSAR classification to those of the JERS classification in order to detect changes in wetlands type or extent during the decade-long interval between the two sets of SAR imagery.

Keywords

lakes; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; AD 1997 to 1998; Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array L-Band SAR data; Alaska; JERS data; Japanese Earth Resources Satellite data; L-Band SAR imagery; North American boreal wetlands; PALSAR data; continental-scale map; decadal change; differential analysis; Earth; Image analysis; L-band; Laboratories; Lighting; Phased arrays; Polarization; Propulsion; Radiometry; Satellites; JERS; PALSAR; boreal; wetlands;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3394-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3395-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417932

Filename

5417932