Title
Karst forest type discrimination in southwest China using spaceborne polarimetric SAR data
Abstract
Karst forest physiognomy occupy a large area of Guizhou, southwest China. It is a rare forest resource in the earth and urgently needed to carry out protection. Due to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data's ability to acquire images through clouds, it was tested as an alternative to optical data to map changes of land use/land cover, to estimate biophysical parameters of vegetation types, and to detect deforestation. The main goal of this paper is to analyze the potential of the spaceborne full polarimetric data in distinguishing the different types of forest in southwest China. Different polarimetric target decompositions, such as eigenvetor-based decomposition (Cloude-Pottier's decomposition and Touzi Decomposition) and scattering model-based decomposition (Freeman decomposition), were used in this paper to extract forested areas from the scene. To further divide the extracted forested area into deciduous and coniferous forest., Supervised polarimetric classification procedures based on Freeman decomposition is presented in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417718
IGARSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
space-borne sar,biophysical parameters,synthetic aperture radar,scattering model-based decomposition,classification,land cover,supervised polarimetric classification,deciduous forest,land use,deforestation,southwest china,karst forest type discrimination,polarimetric decompostion,polarimetric target decompositions,coniferous forest,spaceborne polarimetric sar data,eigenvetor-based decomposition,remote sensing by radar,freeman decomposition,guizhou,cloude-pottier decomposition,geophysical signal processing,touzi decomposition,vegetation mapping,spaceborne radar,forest,radar polarimetry,optical scattering,data mining,adaptive optics,testing,earth
Vegetation,Computer science,Synthetic aperture radar,Deciduous,Remote sensing,Landform,Deforestation,Land cover,Karst,Land use
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
5
2153-6996
978-1-4244-3395-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhongsheng Xia101.35
Maosong Xu201.69
Chou Xie343.04
Ridha Touzi421425.43
Fengli Zhang515426.40
Huaze Gong6238.32
Wei Tian774.44