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Forest height estimation from a robust TomoSAR method in the case of small tomographic aperture with airborne dataset at L-band / Xing Peng in Remote sensing, vol 13 n° 11 (June-1 2021)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 13 n° 11 (June-1 2021) . - n° 2147 Titre : Forest height estimation from a robust TomoSAR method in the case of small tomographic aperture with airborne dataset at L-band Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xing Peng, Auteur ; Xinwu Li, Auteur ; Yanan Du, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 2147 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image radar et applications [Termes IGN] bande L [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] forêt boréale [Termes IGN] hauteur des arbres [Termes IGN] image 3D [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] inventaire forestier (techniques et méthodes) [Termes IGN] itération [Termes IGN] matrice de covariance [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de surface de la canopée [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] Suède [Termes IGN] tomographie radar Résumé : (auteur) Forest height is an essential input parameter for forest biomass estimation, ecological modeling, and the carbon cycle. Tomographic synthetic aperture radar (TomoSAR), as a three-dimensional imaging technique, has already been successfully used in forest areas to retrieve the forest height. The nonparametric iterative adaptive approach (IAA) has been recently introduced in TomoSAR, achieving a good compromise between high resolution and computing efficiency. However, the performance of the IAA algorithm is significantly degraded in the case of a small tomographic aperture. To overcome this shortcoming, this paper proposes the robust IAA (RIAA) algorithm for SAR tomography. The proposed approach follows the framework of the IAA algorithm, but also considers the noise term in the covariance matrix estimation. By doing so, the condition number of the covariance matrix can be prevented from being too large, improving the robustness of the forest height estimation with the IAA algorithm. A set of simulated experiments was carried out, and the results validated the superiority of the RIAA estimator in the case of a small tomographic aperture. Moreover, a number of fully polarimetric L-band airborne tomographic SAR images acquired from the ESA BioSAR 2008 campaign over the Krycklan Catchment, Northern Sweden, were collected for test purposes. The results showed that the RIAA algorithm performed better in reconstructing the vertical structure of the forest than the IAA algorithm in areas with a small tomographic aperture. Finally, the forest height was estimated by both the RIAA and IAA TomoSAR methods, and the estimation accuracy of the RIAA algorithm was 2.01 m, which is more accurate than the IAA algorithm with 3.25 m. Numéro de notice : A2021-441 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs13112147 Date de publication en ligne : 29/05/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112147 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=97828 [article]