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2011
Conference Paper
Titel
Structural analysis of forest areas in high-resolution SAR images
Abstract
Nowadays, climatic and socio-economic conditions require a change in thinking in the field of state forest management. A high demand for up to date and precise forest information is given - especially in regard to increasing forest damages by natural hazards. The increasing availability of high-resolution and shortly-revisiting satellite systems (e.g., TerraSARX, Cosmo-SkyMed, RapidEye) allows to support such monitoring tasks. A TerraSAR-X image pair was analyzed focusing on the image analysis of forest areas. There, the advantage of the higher geometric resolution and the independance to sun-illumination of the SAR imagery compared to electro-optical image data was taken. The study in this paper deals with the extraction of tree and forest heights as structural parameters.