Title :
Multi-thematic exploitation of TerraSAR-X images in the context of the kalideos reference dataseis
Author :
Garrigues, Sébastien ; May, Stéphane ; Baghdadi, Nicolas ; Champion, Isabelle ; Froge, J.-L. ; Rabaute, Thierry ; Durand, Philippe ; Pourthie, Nadine
Author_Institution :
CNES DCT/SI/AP, Toulouse, France
Abstract :
This paper presents the use of TerraSAR-X images m the context of the Kalideos programme, which aims at providing the user community with time series of multi-spectral (optical and radar) and multi-resolution remote sensing imagery. 120 TerraSAR-X acquisitions are scheduled for three distinct thematics: volcano monitoring (Reunion island site), sugarcane crop monitoring (Reunion island site) and forest monitoring (Arcachon/Landes forest site). We describe here the advancement of these studies, focusing on sugarcane crop monitoring which is the most advanced one. These studies will serve as typical examples of multi-thematic use of TerraSAR-X imagery and demonstrate the relevance of TerraSAR-X imagery for the development of scientific reference datasets.
Keywords :
data acquisition; geophysical image processing; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation; vegetation mapping; volcanology; Arcachon forest site; Kalideos reference datasets; Landes forest site; Reunion island site; forest monitoring; image acquisitions; multiresolution remote sensing imagery; multispectral imagery; multithematic TerraSAR-X imagery; sugarcane crop monitoring; time series imagery; volcano monitoring; Backscatter; Reference dataset; Reunion island; TerraSAR-X; forest; sugarcane crop monitoring; volcano;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417992
