Improved Three-Component Decomposition Technique for Forest Parameters Estimation from PolInSAR Image

Nguyen Ngoc Tan; Pham Minh Nghia; Bui Ngoc Thuy

doi:10.21553/rev-jec.192

Improved Three-Component Decomposition Technique for Forest Parameters Estimation from PolInSAR Image

Nguyen Ngoc Tan, Pham Minh Nghia, Bui Ngoc Thuy

Abstract

Polarimetric SAR interferometry (PolInSAR) is an efficient remote sensing technique that allows to extract forest heights by means of model-based inversion. Recently, there have been plenty of researches on the retrieval of vegetation parameters by single frequency single baseline PolInSAR, such as the ESPRIT method and three-stage inversion method. However, these methods have several shortcomings which tend to underestimate the forest height due to attenuations of the electromagnetic waves in the ground medium. In order to overcome these shortcomings, an improved three-component decomposition technique using PolInSAR image is proposed in this paper. By means of coherence set and a Newton-Raphson method, the proposed method improves the accuracy of forest height estimation. The proposed algorithm performance is evaluated with simulated data from PolSARProSim software and L-band PolInSAR image pair of Tien-Shan test site which is acquired by the SIR-C/X-SAR system.

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