Polarimetric and Multitemporal Information Extracted from Sentinel-1 Sar Data to Map Buildings

Auteurs

M. Chini, R. Pelich, R. Hostache, P. Matgen, and C. López-Martínez

Référence

in 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Valencia, SPAIN, 22-27 July, pp. 8132-8134, 2018

Description

This study aims to map built-up areas using SAR data provided by the Sentinel-1 mission. The proposed algorithm exploits several features offered by the satellite mission such as: high revisit time, dual-polarization data and Interferometric SAR coherence. The algorithm is based on an adaptive parametric thresholding methodology that identifies pixels with high backscattering values in both VV and VH channels corresponding to built-up areas. The Interferometric SAR coherence allows discriminating false alarms caused by other land cover classes characterized by high backscattering values which are not coherent in time (e.g. certain types of vegetated areas). Both the intensity in VV and VH, as well as coherence features are obtained by averaging multi-temporal SAR series. This allows reducing the speckle without any loss in spatial resolution. The algorithm has been tested on Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath data from five different test sites located in semiarid and arid regions in the Mediterranean region and Northern Africa.

Lien

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2018.8518607

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