Comparison of ALOS PALSAR RVI and Landsat TM NDVI for Forest Area Mapping

摘要：

The objective of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of the radar vegetation index (RVI) derived from ALOS PALSAR full polarimetric data for forest area mapping.Comparison was made between RVI and NDVI of Landsat TM data. After examining of the index maps and the corresponding histograms,forest/non-forest segmentation was performed by unsupervised classification and by threshold method. The results show that RVI is much better in this kind of application.Considering the data acquisition capability,full polarimetric SAR data are quite promising for forest monitoring.

关键词： ALOS PALSAR RVI NDVI Forest

作者: F.Ling Z.Li E.Chen Q.Wang

作者单位: Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques,Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing,China 10009 Institute of Forest Resources Information Techniques,Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing,China 10009 Spatial Information Research Center,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou,China 350002

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 2nd Asian-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar(第二届亚太合成孔径雷达会议)

会议地点: 西安

会议语种:英文

页码: 132-135

在线出版日期: 2009-10-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）