GC41D:
Multifrequency Interferometric SAR for Forest Structure and Biomass Measurement Posters

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Session ID#: 13610

Session Description:
Forest structure and aboveground biomass (AGB) are required for the measurement, monitoring, and modeling of regional and global carbon cycle dynamics, and consequent effects on climate. Furthermore, monitoring and mitigation strategies implemented at the local level will require spatial and temporal resolution of structure and AGB dynamics at the hectare and few-month level, respectively.  Missions capable of these resolutions, using all-weather interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) or its polarimetric variant (PolInSAR), are currently being flown or planned to fly in the next 10 years.  This session focuses on the diverse range of radar frequencies that will be used in these missions, from P-band (wavelength, λ=80 cm) to Ka-band (λ=1 cm). Penetration through vegetation, necessary for structure and AGB measurement, is greater at longer wavelengths, while attenuation at shorter wavelengths is somewhat countered by better propagation through holes in the forest medium.  The complementary benefits of each frequency will be explored.
Primary Convener:  Robert N Treuhaft, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Scott Hensley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Konstantinos Papathanassiou1, Robert N Treuhaft2 and Scott Hensley2, (1)German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany(2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robert N Treuhaft, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Information Content, Synergies and Complementarities of Vertical Profiles of the SAR Backscattered Power at High and Low Frequencies for Imaging Forest 3-D Structure (Invited) (127454)
Matteo Pardini and Konstantinos Papathanassiou, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Estimation of the Above Ground Biomass of Tropical Forests using Polarimetric and Tomographic SAR Data Acquired at P Band and 3-D Imaging Techniques (Invited) (141661)
Laurent Ferro-Famil, University of Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France, Bassam El Hajj Chehade, University of Rennes, IETR, Rennes Cedex, France, Dinh Ho Tong Minh, IRSTEA, Antony Cedex, France, Stefano Tebaldini, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Thuy LE Toan, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Frequency Variation of the Polarimetric Scattering Mechanisms of Forests and its Consequences on Biomass Estimation using InSAR (124653)
Laetitia Thirion-Lefevre and Régis Guinvarc'h, CentraleSupelec, SONDRA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Quantification of Tropical Forest Biomass and its Changes through Using InSAR Phase Measurements (134922)
Yang Lei1, Robert N Treuhaft2, Maxim Neumann1, Michael Maier Keller3, Fabio G Goncalves4 and João Roberto Santos5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, (4)Canopy Remote Sensing Solutions, Florianopolis, Brazil, (5)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Canopy Height and Vertical Structure from Multibaseline Polarimetric InSAR: First Results of the 2016 NASA/ESA AfriSAR Campaign (153388)
Marco Lavalle1, Scott Hensley2, Yunling Lou3, Sassan S Saatchi2, Naiara Pinto4, Marc Simard5, Temilola Fatoyinbo6, Laura Duncanson7, Ralph Dubayah8, Michelle A Hofton9, James Bryan Blair10 and John David Armston11, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (11)University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Physical Forest Sructure and its Change estimated by means of Multi-Baseline SAR at different Frequencies (156598)
Konstantinos Papathanassiou and Matteo Pardini, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Mapping Tropical Forest Mosaics with C- and L-band SAR: First Results from Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (197044)
Naiara Pinto1, Scott Hensley2,3, Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui4, Eben N Broadbent5 and Razi Ahmed3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC, United States, (5)University of Florida, Gainesville, United States
Estimating Tropical Aboveground Biomass from Fourier Transforms of Vegetation Profiles from TanDEM-X Phase Heights (166041)
Robert N Treuhaft1, Fabio G Goncalves2, Yang Lei1, João Roberto Santos3 and Michael Maier Keller4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Canopy Remote Sensing Solutions, Florianopolis, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States

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