Mapping boreal forest biomass with imagery from polarimetric and semi-polarimetric SAR sensors / Mapeamento da biomassa fl orestal boreal com imagens dos sensores SAR polarimétricos e semi-polarimétricos
Data from ALOS/Palsar and TerraSAR-X were used to estimate forest biomass in Boreal forest zone in Finland. In the study site in Heinavesi (forest biomass between 0 and 255 tons/ha), the HH-polarised componentof dual-polarised ALOS/Palsar produced biomass estimation accuracies (RMSE) between 35 and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editora Unicentro
2008-09-01
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| Series: | Ambiência |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.unicentro.br/index.php/ambiencia/article/view/284/382 |
| Summary: | Data from ALOS/Palsar and TerraSAR-X were used to estimate forest biomass in Boreal forest zone in Finland. In the study site in Heinavesi (forest biomass between 0 and 255 tons/ha), the HH-polarised componentof dual-polarised ALOS/Palsar produced biomass estimation accuracies (RMSE) between 35 and 42 tons/ha. In the Kuortane site (biomass0…188 tons/ha) the RMSE varied between 25 and 28 tons/ha. Since onlytwo winter-time scenes from TerraSAR-X were available, TerraSAR-X results were very preliminary. The phase of the HH-VV cross-coherenceproduced the highest biomass-correlations among the TerraSAR-X derived features. This produced a biomass estimation accuracy (RMSE) of 49 tons/ha in the Heinavesi study site. |
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| ISSN: | 1808-0251 2175-9405 |