Polarimetric Decomposition Applied to 3D SAR Images of Forested Terrain
Conference: EUSAR 2010 - 8th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/07/2010 - 06/10/2010 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2010
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Sauer, Stefan; Kugler, Florian; Lee, Seung-Kuk; Papathanassiou, Kostas (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR), Germany)
Abstract:
In this paper, recently conceived polarimetric array signal processing techniques are applied for producing 3D images over forested scenes from multibaseline POL-InSAR observations. Subsequently, the optimal scattering mechanisms are investigated using polarimetric decomposition to derive structural forest parameters. This three-dimensional analysis is performed by employing multibaseline POL-InSAR datasets over a temperate forest (Traunstein) acquired by the E-SAR system of DLR at L-band and validated against LIDAR measurements.