HR: 09:45h
AN: B41E-06    [Abstracts]
TI: SAR, InSAR and Lidar studies for measuring vegetation structure over the Harvard Forest
AU: * Siqueira, P R
EM: siqueira@ecs.umass.edu
AF: University of Massachusetts, 113D Knowles Engineering Building University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States
AU: Chapman, B
EM: siqueira@ecs.umass.edu
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
AU: Hensley, S
EM: siqueira@ecs.umass.edu
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
AB: In this paper we discuss ongoing studies of utilizing repeat-pass interferometric SAR, full waveform lidar, and radar polarimetry over the Harvard Forest in Massachusetts, for the purpose of characterizing vegetation three- dimensional structure. Polarimetric L-band Repeat-pass InSAR data is available over the region from the Japanese Space Agency's ALOS/PALSAR instrument, with a repeat period of 46 days. In 2003, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS) also flew over the area and provided extensive mapping of the regions true- ground surface topography and canopy height. The combination of these observations will provide a powerful combination for exploring the ability of the fundamental data types for estimating characteristics about the vegetation structure.
DE: 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics (4815)
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
DE: 1632 Land cover change
DE: 6924 Interferometry (1207, 1209, 1242)
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting