A Review of Forest Height Inversion by PolInSAR: Theory, Advances, and Perspectives

C Xing, H Wang, Z Zhang, J Yin, J Yang - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forests cover approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface and constitute the core
region of the carbon cycle on Earth. The paramount importance and multi-purpose …

The status of technologies to measure forest biomass and structural properties: State of the art in SAR tomography of tropical forests

S Tebaldini, D Ho Tong Minh… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) is an emerging technology to image
the 3D structure of the illuminated media. TomoSAR exploits the key feature of microwaves …

TomoSense: A unique 3D dataset over temperate forest combining multi-frequency mono-and bi-static tomographic SAR with terrestrial, UAV and airborne lidar, and …

S Tebaldini, MM d'Alessandro, LMH Ulander… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The TomoSense experiment was funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to support
research on remote sensing of forested areas by means of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) …

Requirements for a global lidar system: spaceborne lidar with wall-to-wall coverage

S Hancock, C McGrath, C Lowe… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Lidar is the optimum technology for measuring bare-Earth elevation beneath, and the
structure of, vegetation. Consequently, airborne laser scanning (ALS) is widely employed for …

Forest SAR tomography: Principles and applications

H Aghababaei, G Ferraioli, L Ferro-Famil… - … and remote sensing …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) systems are widely used for monitoring vegetation and
forested environments. Those that offer large-scale coverage, short revisiting times, and an …

Forest structure characterization from SAR tomography at L-band

M Tello, V Cazcarra-Bes, M Pardini… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing configurations are able to provide
continuous measurements on global scales sensitive to the vertical structure of forests with a …

Digital terrain model retrieval in tropical forests through P-band SAR tomography

MM d'Alessandro, S Tebaldini - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper focuses on the retrieval of terrain topography below dense tropical forests by
means of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. Low-frequency signals are needed to …

Tropical forest top height by GEDI: From sparse coverage to continuous data

YN Ngo, D Ho Tong Minh, N Baghdadi, I Fayad - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Estimating consistent large-scale tropical forest height using remote sensing is essential for
understanding forest-related carbon cycles. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation …

Interferometric phase linking: Algorithm, application, and perspective

DHT Minh, S Tebaldini - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mitigating decorrelation effects on interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time
series data is challenging. The phase linking (PL) algorithm has been the key to handling …

Comparison of tomographic SAR reflectivity reconstruction algorithms for forest applications at L-band

V Cazcarra-Bes, M Pardini, M Tello… - … on Geoscience and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forest structure is a key parameter for forest applications, but it is difficult to be estimated at
the required spatial and temporal scales. In this context, synthetic aperture radar …