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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2014, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (3): 83-91.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20140312

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Multi-Temporal and Dual-Polarization SAR for Forest Land Type Classification

Wang Xinshuang1,2, Chen Erxue1, Li Zengyuan1, Yao Wanqiang3, Zhao Lei1   

  1. 1. Research Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques, CAF Beijing 100091;
    2. Shaanxi Geomatics Center, National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geo-Information Xi'an 710054;
    3. Department of Geomatics, Xi'an University of Science and Technology Xi'an 710054
  • Received:2013-05-02 Revised:2013-11-28 Online:2014-03-25 Published:2014-04-16
  • Contact: 陈尔学

Abstract:

Forest plays an important role on global carbon cycle and nature disturbance, so it is of great significance to monitor and map forest resources. Xunke County of Heilongjiang Province was selected as the test site and the coverage of two scenes of ALOS PALSAR images were applied. The sensitivity of multi-temporal PolSAR, InSAR with forest structure variation and time varying characteristics of backscattering coefficients and interferometric coherences were applied for forest land type classification. We developed a forest land type classification method based on SVM using multi-temporal, dual-polarization and interferometric SAR (InSAR) data. The result showed that the average InSAR coherence of multi-temporal could effectively identify forest land, sparse forest land and shrub land. The multi-temporal InSAR coherence, polarization ratios and other effective dimension information selected could effectively highlight the features and structures of objects and classify forest land types in detail.

Key words: multi-temporal, polarization, InSAR, forest land type, classification

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