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Separating the influence of vegetation changes in polarimetric differential SAR interferometry / Virginia Brancato in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 56 n° 12 (December 2018)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 56 n° 12 (December 2018) . - pp 6871 - 6883 Titre : Separating the influence of vegetation changes in polarimetric differential SAR interferometry Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Virginia Brancato, Auteur ; Irena Hajnsek, Auteur Année de publication : 2018 Article en page(s) : pp 6871 - 6883 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bande L [Termes IGN] biomasse [Termes IGN] carte de la végétation [Termes IGN] détection de changement [Termes IGN] données polarimétriques [Termes IGN] humidité du sol [Termes IGN] image AIRSAR [Termes IGN] interferométrie différentielle [Termes IGN] interféromètrie par radar à antenne synthétique [Termes IGN] polarimétrie radar [Termes IGN] surface cultivée [Termes IGN] télédétection en hyperfréquence Résumé : (auteur) Soil moisture and wet biomass changes between two noninstantaneous SAR observations markedly affect the displacement estimates obtainable with Differential Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (DInSAR). The separation, the modeling of these influences besides their uncoupling from the displacement signal, and the atmospheric disturbances are still unsolved issues for several repeat-pass interferometric applications. This paper focuses on the separation of vegetation changes from the other phase contributions affecting repeat-pass measurements over vegetated areas. These phase terms mainly relate to changes in soil moisture, atmospheric delays, and surface deformation. The separation is achieved with a first-order scattering solution decomposing the observed HH and VV DInSAR phases in the sum of several phase terms. The latter mainly consider the changes in soil surface scattering and in the two-way propagation through a vertically oriented vegetation canopy. No assumption is made on the spatiotemporal evolution of the displacement and atmosphere. The overall approach is tested on a L-band data set acquired over an agricultural area. Upon calibration, the model allows for estimating changes in wet biomass based on the nonzero HH–VV DInSAR phase difference observed over several birefringent agricultural fields. The obtained biomass estimates provide then a correction for the effect of vegetation changes on the observed HH and VV DInSAR phases. Deprived of the vegetation contribution, the remainder phase terms can be more easily explored for further analyses, e.g., the estimation of soil moisture changes and/or surface movements in vertically oriented vegetated areas. Numéro de notice : A2018-551 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2845368 Date de publication en ligne : 14/08/2018 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2845368 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91639 [article]