The effect of temporal decorrelation on the inversion of forest parameters from Pol-InSAR data

Abstract

This paper addresses the effect of temporal decorrelation on the inversion of forest parameters using Pol- InSAR techniques. The modeling of temporal decorrelation and the inversion of single-baseline Pol-InSAR data in the presence of temporal decorrelation is discussed. Model based simulations and experimental multi-temporal fully polarimetric and repeat pass interferometric data from the SIR-C Space shuttle mission are used for the performance analysis of the proposed approach. Keywords-component: Polarimetric SAR interferometry (Pol- InSAR), Forest Parameter Estimation.