Modeling Temporal Evolution of Junco Marshes Radar Signatures
In this work, multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in conjunction with an electromagnetic (EM) model and a vegetation growth model were used to monitor and explain burn-regrowth events of junco vegetation in a wetland environment. The data used were from Radarsat-1, ENVISAT Advanced Syn...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2005 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/21025 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/21025 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Electromagnetic (Em) Radar Wetlands https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | In this work, multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data in conjunction with an electromagnetic (EM) model and a vegetation growth model were used to monitor and explain burn-regrowth events of junco vegetation in a wetland environment. The data used were from Radarsat-1, ENVISAT Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), and European Remote Sensing 2 (ERS-2) temporal series. The EM model is based on radiative transfer theory and describes junco vegetation as a set of vertical dielectric cylinders on a flat flooded surface. It was used, together with the vegetation growth model, to predict the temporal evolution of the radar response during a burn–regrowth event. This simulation was compared with the ERS-2 vertical (VV) data. It was observed a “bell-shaped” temporal trend that was confirmed by the simulated data with a mean error of 2.5 dB. Additionally, in view of current and future ENVISAT ASAR Alternating Polarization Mode precision data, the horizontal (HH) SAR temporal response was also simulated giving as a result strong differences between simulated HH and VV temporal trends. These differences are in good agreement with the ones observed between Radarsat-1 HH and ERS-2 VV SAR data acquired at close dates and also with the same differences observed between HH and VV ENVISAT ASAR data. Electromagnetic modeling results provide a sound theoretical interpretation of these observations. |
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