DEM and DHM reconstruction in tropical forests: Tomographic results at P-band with three flight tracks

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to derive DEM and DHM in tropical forests based on the technology of multi-baseline InSAR tomography, focusing on the requirement of the minimum number of flight tracks. The experiments were carried out on P-band HH polarization airborne multi-baseline InSAR data over the site of Paracou, French Guiana, during the European Space Agency campaign TropiSAR 2009. Tomographic processing was carried out by Capon spectral estimation technique with three-track observations, subsequently two elevation values with respect to the relative maximum peaks were retrieved representing DEM and DSM respectively. As expected, the retrieved DEM and DHM are found agreements with LiDAR measurements.