Fransson, Johan
- Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
Two field experiments have been conducted in Sweden to allow an evaluation of the backscatter signatures of wind-thrown forest from L-band, C-band and X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. When the trees are felled the backscattered signal from TerraSAR-X (X-band) increase with about 1.5 dB, while for ALOS PALSAR (L-band) a decrease with the same amount is observed. Radar images with fine spatial resolution also show shadowing effects that should be possible to use for identification of storm felled forest.
Keywords
Synthetic Aperture Radar; forestry; wind-throw; storm damage; clear-cut
Published in
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium proceedings
2012, pages: 6435-6438
Publisher: IEEE
Conference
IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2012
SLU Authors
Associated SLU-program
Remningstorp
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Environmental Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352732
- ISBN: 978-1-4673-1159-5
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/41216