SAR Analysis in Tropical Forest Environments to Support FAO's Next Global Forst Resources Assessment
Abstract
The surveillance and the mapping of the world's forest resources is an important and non-trivial task. To support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) efforts for an implementation of remote sensing methods in their Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), this paper presents the ongoing work to refine the land cover/forest mapping for the tropical regions of the world. For the stratification of 350 high resolution TerraSAR- X (TSX) scenes, a complex weighting function of divers natural and political factors was developed. This amount of data shall be used for a proof-of-concept study for fine scale land cover/forest mapping from active microwave synthetic aperture radar. The methods for the evaluation of the image content as well as the algorithm development for object oriented land cover classification systems are presented here.
- Publication:
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ESA Living Planet Symposium
- Pub Date:
- December 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010ESASP.686E.315K