A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar

A Moreira, P Prats-Iraola, M Younis… - … and remote sensing …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been widely used for Earth remote sensing for more
than 30 years. It provides high-resolution, day-and-night and weather-independent images …

The BIOMASS mission: Mapping global forest biomass to better understand the terrestrial carbon cycle

T Le Toan, S Quegan, MWJ Davidson, H Balzter… - Remote sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
In response to the urgent need for improved mapping of global biomass and the lack of any
current space systems capable of addressing this need, the BIOMASS mission was …

Forest height estimation by means of Pol-InSAR data inversion: The role of the vertical wavenumber

F Kugler, SK Lee, I Hajnsek… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines the multifaceted effect of the effective spatial baseline, as expressed
through the vertical (interferometric) wavenumber, on the inversion of forest height from …

Tropical-forest-parameter estimation by means of Pol-InSAR: The INDREX-II campaign

I Hajnsek, F Kugler, SK Lee… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the potential and limitations of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) interferometry (Pol-InSAR) inversion techniques for quantitative forest-parameter …

Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) missions employing formation flying

G Krieger, I Hajnsek, KP Papathanassiou… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an overview of single-pass interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR) missions employing two or more satellites flying in a close formation. The …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-baseline forest height estimation method combining analytic and geometric expression of the RVoG model

B Zhang, H Zhu, W Song, J Zhu, J Dai, J Zhang, C Li - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
As an important parameter of forest biomass, forest height is of great significance for the
calculation of forest carbon stock and the study of the carbon cycle in large-scale regions …

TanDEM-X Pol-InSAR inversion for mangrove canopy height estimation

SK Lee, TE Fatoyinbo - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents mangrove canopy height estimations using single-and dual-pol
TanDEM-X (TDX) data by means of Pol-InSAR techniques. Using the TDX data for forest …

Height estimation of boreal forest: Interferometric model-based inversion at L-and X-band versus HUTSCAT profiling scatterometer

J Praks, F Kugler, KP Papathanassiou… - … and remote sensing …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present results from the FinSAR project, where the E-SAR and Helsinki
University of Technology Scatterometer (HUTSCAT) instruments were operated together in …

Biomass estimation in dense tropical forest using multiple information from single-baseline P-band PolInSAR data

Z Liao, B He, X Quan, AIJM van Dijk, S Qiu… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the upcoming BIOMASS mission, P-band PolInSAR is expected to provide new
perspectives on global forest aboveground biomass (AGB). However, its performance has …

Multibaseline polarimetric SAR interferometry forest height inversion approaches

SK Lee, F Kugler, K Papathanassiou… - Proceedings of ESA …, 2011 - elib.dlr.de
Polarimetric SAR interferometry (Pol-InSAR) is a radar remote sensing technique that is
sensitive to the vertical distribution of scattering processes in volumes. The Random Volume …