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Phenomenology of ground scattering in a tropical forest through polarimetric synthetic aperture radar tomography / Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 51 n° 8 (August 2013)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 51 n° 8 (August 2013) . - pp 4430 - 4437 Titre : Phenomenology of ground scattering in a tropical forest through polarimetric synthetic aperture radar tomography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Mauro Mariotti d'Alessandro, Auteur ; Stefano Tebaldini, Auteur ; Fabio Rocca, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Article en page(s) : pp 4430 - 4437 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bande P [Termes IGN] forêt tropicale [Termes IGN] Guyane (département français) [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] niveau du sol [Termes IGN] polarimétrie radar [Termes IGN] tomographie Résumé : (Auteur) This paper aims at characterizing the scattering mechanisms occurring at the ground level in a tropical forest illuminated by a P-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The analysis is carried out based on the multibaseline, fully polarimetric, data set collected by ONERA over Paracou, French Guyana, in the frame of the European space agency campaign TropiSAR. The favorable baseline distribution of this data set results in the possibility of removing most contributions from the vegetation layer by tomographic techniques, thus allowing the generation of a new fully polarimetric single look complex SAR image relative to scattering contributions from the ground level only. Such a ground layer image is then analyzed by considering the variation of its polarimetric signature with respect to terrain local slope and Radar look angle. Two major conclusions are drawn: 1) double bounce scattering from trunk-ground interactions is observed to be the dominant scattering mechanism at the ground level on flat terrains, whereas it rapidly tends to vanish as the topographic slope increases, and 2) the characteristic parameter that rules trunk-ground scattering is not the tree height, but rather the available free path facing the tree, as a result of the presence of nearby trees, undulating topography, or understory preventing double bounce scattering from taking place whenever the ground bounce occurs too far away from the considered tree. The mean free path length resulting from the analysis of this data-set is found to be L ? 7 m. Finally, we discuss how the concept of free path length can be accounted for in simple terms by assuming an equivalent extinction model characterized by a variation along the horizontal dimension. Numéro de notice : A2013-415 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246573 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246573 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=32553 [article]

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