Tropical forest structure estimation using polarimetric SAR tomography at P-BAND

Yué Huang , Laurent Ferro-Famil (1) , Maxim Neumann (2)

1 IETR - Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique
2 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology [Leipzig]

This paper addresses the characterization of tropical forest structure by estimating their heights, underlying ground topography, vertical structure function and ground-to-volume ratio. The hybrid tomographic estimator can accurately estimate the tree top heights and the underlying topography. In order to separate the ground and volume contributions, model-based two-component fitting techniques are proposed to reconstruct the vertical structure function of forests. The proposed techniques are applied to P-Band Multi-baseline PolInSAR data acquired during the TropiSAR campaign over the test site of Paracou in French Guiana.

Yué Huang, Laurent Ferro-Famil, Maxim Neumann. Tropical forest structure estimation using polarimetric SAR tomography at P-BAND. IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing IGARSS, Jul 2012, Munich, Germany. pp.7593-7596. ⟨hal-00949829⟩