Conveners
Forestry IV: TomoSAR applications
- Matteo Pardini (German Aerospace Center (DLR))
- Ludovic Villard (CESBIO)
SAR tomography is a useful technique for monitoring and estimating forest geophysical parameters, as demonstrated by airborne measurements [1]. The future ESA BIOMASS mission aims to map the above-ground biomass and tree height of tropical forest on a global scale and to estimate the underlying ground topography. To do so a tomographic imaging mode will be applied to multi-baseline PolInSAR...
The TomoSense experiment was conceived to provide the scientific community with unprecedented data to study the features of radar scattering from temperate forests, comprising tomographic and fully polarimetric SAR surveys at P-, L-, and C-band, acquired in mono- and bistatic mode by simultaneously flying two aircraft. The TomoSense dataset is complemented by a detailed forest census,...
Tomographic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), TomoSAR, is an electromagnetic imaging technique able to map the 3D reflectivity of complex environments. It is generally implemented using radar signals acquired over a 2D aperture, i.e. using a set of coherent 2D SAR images measured from slightly shifted trajectories. Forested environments can be efficiently characterized using TomoSAR acquisitions...
