ADVANCED_SAR

Advanced Techniques for Forest Biomass and Biomass Change Mapping Using Novel Combination of Active Remote Sensing Sensors

 Coordinatore GEODEETTINEN LAITOS 

 Organization address address: GEODEETINRINNE 2
city: MASALA
postcode: 2430

contact info
Titolo: Prof
Nome: Juha
Cognome: Hyyppä

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Finland [FI]
 Totale costo 2˙668˙482 €
 EC contributo 1˙993˙062 €
 Programma FP7-SPACE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space
 Code Call FP7-SPACE-2013-1
 Funding Scheme CP-FP
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-09-05   -   2017-10-01

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    GEODEETTINEN LAITOS

 Organization address address: GEODEETINRINNE 2
city: MASALA
postcode: 2430

contact info
Titolo: Prof
Nome: Juha
Cognome: Hyyppä

FI (MASALA) coordinator 743˙881.00
2    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN

 Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13
city: WIEN
postcode: 1040

contact info
Titolo: Prof
Nome: Wolfgang
Cognome: Wagner

AT (WIEN) participant 500˙339.00
3    SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

 Organization address address: ARRHENIUSPLAN 4
city: UPPSALA
postcode: 75007

contact info
Titolo: Ms
Nome: Linda
Cognome: ågren

SE (UPPSALA) participant 500˙000.00
4    TreeMetrics Ltd

 Organization address address: "Rubicon Centre, CIT Campus, Bishopstown"
city: Cork

contact info
Titolo: Mr
Nome: Enda
Cognome: Keane

IE (Cork) participant 148˙873.00
5    CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB

 Organization address address: -
city: GOETEBORG
postcode: 41296

contact info
Titolo: Ms
Nome: Ingrid
Cognome: Jakobson

SE (GOETEBORG) participant 99˙969.00

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national    services    radar    quality    detection    canopy    inventory    forest    scanning    gmes    als    site    estimation    tomoradar    laser    boreal    data    created       sweden    physical    sar    band    biomass   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The S&T objectives of the Advanced_SAR project are: 1) to develop advanced Earth Observation methods by combining 3D data derived from various Remote Sensing systems in an novel way and 2) to show their improved performances in forest biomass estimation and biomass change detection with respect to present GMES services. The methodology is based on object-based, multi-date analysis of Sentinel-1 (C-band), TerraSAR/TanDEM-X (X-band), ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 (L-band) SAR data utilizing radargrammetry and InSAR. Understanding of 3D forest responses will be deepened by comparing results to other modern 3D methods: optical satellite stereo-photogrammetry, simulated space-borne LiDAR, and Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS). It will be shown that high-quality estimation and change detection can be done at different scales (thus improving estimation accuracy at national level). We develop methods to derive the best possible cost-efficiency out of the given SAR data with an aim to significantly advance current GMES services. The methodological quality will be verified by comparing the relationship between SAR canopy height estimates with those of two probing systems: TomoRadar (profiling radar) and ALS. ALS gives more information of canopy gaps whereas TomoRadar will give information of canopy penetration at radar frequencies. A physical model is created between the SAR response and the ground truth. Deep physical understanding of where the radar signals originate in the vertical dimension is created for SAR scenes with using ALS and TomoRadar data as a high-quality reference. Moreover, Mobile and Terrestrial Laser Scanning methods for field inventory are tested in real-life scenario. Two super test sites 1) boreal test site Evo (Finland) and 2) hemi-boreal test site Remningstorp (Sweden) are used to verify and demonstrate SAR-based 3D methods. For demonstration purposes, we create SAR-based biomass and change maps covering a large region of Sweden for Swedish National Forest Inventory.'

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