SAR interferometry for estimating above-ground biomass of savanna woodlands in Belize

Karin M. Viergever; I.H. Woodhouse; Armando Marino; Matthew Brolly; Neil Stuart

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780085

SAR interferometry for estimating above-ground biomass of savanna woodlands in Belize

Karin M. Viergever, I.H. Woodhouse, Armando Marino, Matthew Brolly, Neil Stuart

University of Brighton

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Tropical savannas cover 20% of the Earth's land surface and are important ecosystems in the global Carbon cycle due to their high productivity. This paper evaluates the capability of different shortwave synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) data for estimating above-ground biomass of the woody vegetation in heterogeneous tropical savanna woodland in Belize, Central America. Single-pass InSAR data used are X-band (Intermap) and C-band (AIRSAR and SRTM). Results show that retrieved canopy heights from both X- and C-band InSAR are indicative of general patterns of tree height, but the details remain inaccurate due to the heterogeneity of the canopy. Scattering phase centers for C-band are generally higher than for X-band over sparse woodlands, whereas dense tropical forest areas yield higher X-band scattering phase centers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International
Place of Publication	Piscataway
Publisher	IEEE International
Pages	290-293
Number of pages	4
Volume	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781424428083
ISBN (Print)	9781424428076
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780085
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2008
Event	Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International - Boston, MA., USA, 7-11 July 2008 Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → …

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Conference	Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International
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Keywords

AIRSAR
InSAR
Intermap Technologies
SRTM
biomass
heterogeneous
savanna woodland
tree height

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Viergever, KM, Woodhouse, IH, Marino, A, Brolly, M & Stuart, N 2008, SAR interferometry for estimating above-ground biomass of savanna woodlands in Belize. in Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International. vol. 5, IEEE International, Piscataway, pp. 290-293, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International, 1/01/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4780085

SAR interferometry for estimating above-ground biomass of savanna woodlands in Belize. / Viergever, Karin M.; Woodhouse, I.H.; Marino, Armando et al.
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008. IGARSS 2008. IEEE International. Vol. 5 Piscataway: IEEE International, 2008. p. 290-293.

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