Backscatter signatures of wind-thrown forest in satellite SAR images
Paper in proceeding, 2012
Two field experiments have been conducted in Sweden to allow an evaluation of the backscatter signatures of wind-thrown forest from L-band, C-band and X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. When the trees are felled the backscattered signal from TerraSAR-X (X-band) increase with about 1.5 dB, while for ALOS PALSAR (L-band) a decrease with the same amount is observed. Radar images with fine spatial resolution also show shadowing effects that should be possible to use for identification of storm felled forest.
synthetic aperture radar
satellites
wind-thrown forest
vegetation
remote sensing by radar
storms
backscatter
geophysical image processing
radar imaging
Author
Leif Eriksson
Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Radar Remote Sensing
J. E. S. Fransson
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Maciej Soja
Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Radar Remote Sensing
M. Santoro
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
6435-6438 6352732
978-1-4673-1158-8 (ISBN)
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Aerospace Engineering
Remote Sensing
Forest Science
Computer Vision and Robotics (Autonomous Systems)
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352732
ISBN
978-1-4673-1158-8