Testing C-band convoy mission for forest monitoring

Abstract

A C-band convoy mission with a receive-only interferometer using Sentinel-1 as the active sensor could cover the needs for an operational satellite mission for forest monitoring, that can clarify the magnitude and geography of the residual land sink of carbon in the global carbon budget; routinely map forest carbon changes in the tropics for REDD+, and routinely provide updated forest resource maps for operational forestry planning. We are about to carry out an airborne campaign in order to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this, and supplement this with analyses of Tandem-X.

Keywords

SAR; InSAR; forest

Published in

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium proceedings
2017, pages: 3856-3857 Title: 2017 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium : proceedings
ISBN: 978-1-5090-4951-6Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Conference

2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

SLU Authors

• Fransson, Johan

  • Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Remote Sensing


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127843

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/94781