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The Information Content of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar: Vegetation and Underlying Surface TopographyDrawing from recently submitted work, this paper first gives a heuristic description of the sensitivity of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (INSAR) to vertical vegetation distribution and under laying surface topography. A parameter estimation scenario is then described in which the INSAR cross correlation amplitude and phase are the observations from which vegetation and surface topographic parameters are estimated. It is shown that, even in the homogeneous layer model of the vegetation, the number of parameters needed to describe the vegetation and underlying topography exceeds the number of INSAR observations for single baseline, single frequency, single incidence-angle, single polarization INSAR. Using ancillary ground truth data to compensate for the under determination of the parameters, forest depths are estimated from the INSAR data. A recently analyzed multi-baseline data set is also discussed and the potential for stand alone INSAR parameter estimation is assessed. The potential of combining the information content of INSAR with that of infrared/optical remote sensing data is briefly discussed.
Document ID
19970010786
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Treuhaft, Robert N.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Date Acquired
August 17, 2013
Publication Date
March 4, 1996
Publication Information
Publication: Summaries of the Sixth Annual JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop March 4-8, 1996
Volume: 2
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
97N15936
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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