BIOMASS ESTIMATION ALONG A CLIMATIC GRADIENT USING MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC RADAR VEGETATION INDEX

Abstract. Monitoring biomass changes in the Mediterranean ecosystems is important for better understanding their responses to climatic and anthropogenic changes. Multi-frequency SAR data (L-band PASLAR and C-band Sentinel-1) is investigated for developing a biomass estimation model along a climatic gradient in Israel. First, the relationships between biomass and transmissivity at various frequencies are discussed. Multi-frequency polarimetric radar vegetation index (MPRVI) is then proposed utilizing the ensemble average of degree of polarization and cross-polarized backscattering coefficients. After randomly partitioning the data for training set and testing set, the new MPRVI-based biomass model is evaluated. It shows a good agreement with reference biomass data with an r-square of 0.899 and a root-mean-squared error (RMSE) of 0.381 kg/m2 and with a relative RMSE (RRMSE) of 10.8%.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
BIOMASS ESTIMATION ALONG A CLIMATIC GRADIENT USING MULTI-FREQUENCY POLARIMETRIC RADAR VEGETATION INDEX ; volume:V-3-2022 ; year:2022 ; pages:369-374 ; extent:6
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ; V-3-2022 (2022), 369-374 (gesamt 6)

Creator
Chang, G. J.
Oh, Y.
Shoshany, M.

DOI
10.5194/isprs-annals-V-3-2022-369-2022
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022051905313346230418
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Chang, G. J.
  • Oh, Y.
  • Shoshany, M.

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