Analysis of forest backscattering characteristics based on polarization coherence tomography

作     者：LUO HuanMin 1,LI XiaoWen 1,2,CHEN ErXue 3,CHENG Jian 4 & CAO ChunXiang 21 Institute of Geo-Spatial Information Science and Technology,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 610054,China 2 State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science,Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100101,China 3Institute of Forest Resources Information Technique of Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing 100091,China 4 School of Electronic Engineering,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,Chengdu 610054,China 

作者机构：Institute of Geo-Spatial Information Science and Technology University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu China State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Normal University Beijing China Institute of Forest Resources Information Technique of Chinese Academy of Forestry Beijing China School of Electronic Engineering University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu China 

出 版 物：《Science China(Technological Sciences)》 (中国科学（技术科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第53卷第S1期

页      面：166-175页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40871173,60890074) the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Project)(Grant No.2007CB714404) 

主　　题：backscattering characteristic POLInSAR PCT vertical structure function 

摘      要：It is difficult to make an inventory of vertical profiles of forest structure parameters in field ***,analysis and understanding of forest backscattering characteristics contribute to estimation and detection of forest vertical structure because of the close relationships between backscattering characteristics and structure *** vertical structure function in the complex interferometric coherence definition,which represents the vertical variation of microwave scattering with the penetration depth at a point in the 2-D radar image and can be used to analyze the forest backscattering characteristics,can be reconstructed from polarization coherence tomography(PCT).Based on PCT,the paper analyzes the forest backscattering characteristics and explores the inherent relationship between the result of PCT and the forest structure parameters from numerical simulation of Random Volume over Ground model(RVoG),Polarimetric SAR interferometry(PolInSAR)simulation of forest scene and PolInSAR data at L-band of the test site ***,the effects of the extinction coefficient and surface-to-volume scattering ratio in RVoG model on vertical backscattering characteristics are analyzed by means of numerical ***,by applying PCT to L-band POLInSAR simulations of forest scene,different variations of vertical backscattering due to different extinction coefficients and the ratios of surface-to-volume scattering resulting from different polarizations,forest types and densities are displayed and *** a concept of relative average backscattering intensity is presented,and the factors which affect its vertical distribution are also *** results show that there is high sensitivity of the vertical distribution of forest relative average backscattering intensity to the polarization,forest type and ***,based on repeat pass DLR E-SAR L-band airborne POLInSAR data,the capability of PCT technology for detection