Structural analysis of forest areas in high-resolution SAR images

Markus Boldt; Antje Thiele; Karsten Schulz; Stefan Hinz

doi:10.1117/12.898214

26 October 2011 Structural analysis of forest areas in high-resolution SAR images

Markus Boldt, Antje Thiele, Karsten Schulz, Stefan Hinz

Proceedings Volume 8181, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications II; 81810S (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898214
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

Nowadays, climatic and socio-economic conditions require a change in thinking in the field of state forest management. A high demand for up to date and precise forest information is given - especially in regard to increasing forest damages by natural hazards. The increasing availability of high-resolution and shortly-revisiting satellite systems (e.g., TerraSAR-X, Cosmo-SkyMed, RapidEye) allows to support such monitoring tasks. A TerraSAR-X image pair was analyzed focusing on the image analysis of forest areas. There, the advantage of the higher geometric resolution and the independance to sun-illumination of the SAR imagery compared to electro-optical image data was taken. The study in this paper deals with the extraction of tree and forest heights as structural parameters.

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Markus Boldt, Antje Thiele, Karsten Schulz, and Stefan Hinz "Structural analysis of forest areas in high-resolution SAR images", Proc. SPIE 8181, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications II, 81810S (26 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.898214

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