Testing C-band convoy mission for forest monitoring
Paper in proceeding, 2017

A C-band convoy mission with a receive-only interferometer using Sentinel-1 as the active sensor could cover the needs for an operational satellite mission for forest monitoring, that can clarify the magnitude and geography of the residual land sink of carbon in the global carbon budget; routinely map forest carbon changes in the tropics for REDD+, and routinely provide updated forest resource maps for operational forestry planning. We are about to carry out an airborne campaign in order to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this, and supplement this with analyses of Tandem-X.

synthetic aperture radar

forestry

remote sensing by radar

spaceborne radar

vegetation

Author

Svein Solberg

Lars Ulander

Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing

Johan Fransson

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Vol. 2017-July 3856-3857
9781509049516 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Remote Sensing

Forest Science

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2017.8127843

ISBN

9781509049516

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