Earth observation based monitoring of forests in Germany: a review

S Holzwarth, F Thonfeld, S Abdullahi, S Asam… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Forests in Germany cover around 11.4 million hectares and, thus, a share of 32% of
Germany's surface area. Therefore, forests shape the character of the country's cultural …

Early lessons on combining lidar and multi-baseline SAR measurements for forest structure characterization

M Pardini, J Armston, W Qi, SK Lee, M Tello… - Surveys in …, 2019 - Springer
The estimation and monitoring of 3D forest structure at large scales strongly rely on the use
of remote sensing techniques. Today, two of them are able to provide 3D forest structure …

Temporal characteristics of P-band tomographic radar backscatter of a boreal forest

AR Monteith, LMH Ulander - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Temporal variations in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) backscatter over forests are of
concern for any SAR mission with the goal of estimating forest parameters from SAR data. In …

Iterative Adaptive Based Multi-Polarimetric SAR Tomography of the Forested Areas

S Jin, H Bi, Q Guo, J Zhang, W Hong - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) is an extension of synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) imaging. It introduces the synthetic aperture principle into the elevation direction to …

FDM MIMO spaceborne SAR tomography by minimum redundancy wavenumber illumination

S Tebaldini, M Manzoni, L Ferro-Famil… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates a new concept to finely resolve the vertical structure of natural media,
such as snow, ice, and vegetation, by using a formation of spaceborne synthetic aperture …

TomoSAR mapping of 3D forest structure: Contributions of L-band configurations

M Pardini, V Cazcarra-Bes, KP Papathanassiou - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) measurements are unique for mapping forest 3D structure
and its changes in time. Tomographic SAR (TomoSAR) configurations exploit this potential …

Assessment of underlying topography and forest height inversion based on TomoSAR methods

C Wu, X Yang, Y Yu, S Tebaldini… - Geo-spatial Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the strong penetrability, long-wavelength synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide
an opportunity to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the penetrable media. SAR …

Forest aboveground biomass estimation using multi-features extracted by fitting vertical backscattered power profile of tomographic SAR

X Wan, Z Li, E Chen, L Zhao, W Zhang, K Xu - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Forest aboveground biomass (AGB), which plays an important role in the study of global
carbon cycle, is one of the most important indicators in forest resource monitoring. Thus, how …

A novel relative motion measurement method based on distributed POS relative parameters matching transfer alignment

C Qu, J Li - Measurement, 2022 - Elsevier
The relative motion measurement has become the key technology for high precision
imaging of array Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which can be obtained by distributed …

Spatial Configuration Design for Multistatic Airborne SAR Based on Multiple Objective Particle Swarm Optimization

F Xu, R Wang, O Frey, Y Huang, C Mi… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multistatic airborne synthetic aperture radar (MuA-SAR) systems can achieve high-
resolution imaging in a short time by fusing observation data from multiple radar platforms …