Spatial Analysis for Radar Remote Sensing of Tropical Forests [Paperback]

PART I - SARCHEOLOGY: The Era of the big Radar Mosaics.

The Dawn of The Radar Mosaics Era: The ESA-JRC Central Africa Mosaic Project. The L-Band Breed: The GRFM Africa Radar Mosaic. The CAMP-GRFM Thematic Products. Evolution of The Species: The ALOS PALSAR Africa Mosaic.

PART II - Measures of SAR Random Fields in the Scale-Space-Time Domain.

The Stuff Backscatter Random Fields are Made of. Statistical Measures of SAR Random Spatial Fields: Fingerprints of Forest Structure. Hitting Corners: The Lipschitz Regularity, a Measure of Discontinuities in Radar Images Connected with Forest Spatial Distribution. The Beauty Farm: A Wavelet Method for Edge Preserving Piece-Wise Smooth Approximations Of Radar Images. The Cleaning Service: A Multi-Temporal Insar Coherence Magnitude Filter. Proxies of Forest Volume Loss and Gain by Differencing Insar Dsms: Fingerprints Of Forest Disturbance.

This book is based on authors extensive involvement in large-scale radar mapping projects, targeting the health of an important earth ecosystem, tropical forests. It highlights past achievements, explains the underlying physics that allow the radar practitioners to understand what radars image, and paves the way for future developments.

This book is based on the authors extensive involvement in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an earth ecosystem with great relevance for climate change studies: the tropical forests. The subject is developed from a vantage point provided by analysis in a combined space, scale (frequency), time, wavelength, polarization domain. The combination of space and scale offers the capability to zoom in and out like a virtual microscope to the resolution in tune with the underlying ecological phenomenon. It also enables statistical measures (correlations) related to the forest spatial distribution in case of backscatter, or to the cl(