Innovative Synthetic Aperture Radar Products for the Management of Land and Water

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Résumé

The use of satellite data for land management optimization is extremely powerful in low-income countries, where in situ measurements require costly and time-consuming solutions. In this paper we present the innovative results of a pilot-project that used high resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for agriculture physical parameter retrieving. In particular, we present land use maps and a vegetation index evaluated at small scale, thank to the use of Cosmo-Skymed data.

Mots-clés

Synthetic aperture radar, Remote sensing, Satellite, Vegetation (pathology), Radar, Earth observation, Computer science, Vegetation Index, Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, Scale (ratio), Radar imaging, Inverse synthetic aperture radar, Environmental science, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Geology, Geography, Telecommunications, Engineering, Cartography, Climate change