Recent advances in POL(in)SAR remote sensing & stress-change monitoring of wetlands with applications to the Sunchon Bay Tidal Flats
Conference: EUSAR 2008 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/02/2008 - 06/05/2008 at Friedrichshafen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2008
Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Kim, Ji-Eun (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea)
Park, Sang-Eun (University de Rennes 1, IETR S.P.M., 35042 Rennes Cedex, France)
Kim, Duk-Jin (Remote Sensing Research, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), Taejun, Korea)
Boerner, Wolfgang-Martin (ECE, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA)
Moon, Wooil M. (Geophysics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada and Research Institute of Oceanography (RIO), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)
Abstract:
Tidal flats form a unique ecosystem, providing the habitat for various species of fauna and flora which play important roles in the essential function of environmental purification. Tidal flats have particular significance for coastal zone environmental assessment. This study aims to derive physical properties and surface characteristics of tidal flats from fully polarimetric SAR, including the L-band NASA/JPL fully polarimetric AIRSAR data. We employed the extended-Bragg models to measure the surface roughness on tidal flats from polarimetric SAR data. The study area, Sunchon Bay is an important bird sanctuary as well as an important fishery region of Korea.