On the influence of acquisition geometry in backscatter time series over wheat
Fecha
2022Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión publicada / Argitaratu den bertsioa
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10.1016/j.jag.2021.102671
Resumen
Dense time series of Sentinel-1 imagery are an invaluable information source for agricultural applications. Multiple orbits can observe a specific area and their combination could improve the temporal resolution of the time series. However, the orbits have different acquisition geometries regarding incidence and azimuth angles that need to be considered. Furthermore, crops are dynamic canopies an ...
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Dense time series of Sentinel-1 imagery are an invaluable information source for agricultural applications. Multiple orbits can observe a specific area and their combination could improve the temporal resolution of the time series. However, the orbits have different acquisition geometries regarding incidence and azimuth angles that need to be considered. Furthermore, crops are dynamic canopies and the influence of incidence and azimuth angles might change during the agricultural season due to different phenological stages. The main objective of this letter is to evaluate the influence of different acquisition geometries in Sentinel-1 backscatter time series over wheat canopies, and to propose a strategy for their correction. A large dataset of wheat parcels (∼40,000) was used and 344 Sentinel-1 images from three relative orbits were processed during two agricultural seasons. The first analysis was a monthly evaluation of the influence of incidence angle on backscatter (σ0) and terrain flattened backscatter (γ0). It showed that terrain flattening significantly reduced the backscatter dependence on incidence angle, being negligible in VH polarization but not completely in VV polarization. Incidence angle influence in VV backscatter changed in time due to wheat growth dynamics. To further reduce it, an incidence angle normalization technique followed by an azimuthal anisotropy correction were applied. In conclusion, γ0 enabled a reasonable combination of different relative orbits, that may be sufficient for many applications. However, for detailed analyses, the correction techniques might be implemented to further reduce orbit differences, especially in bare soil periods or winter months. [--]
Materias
Azimuthal anisotropy,
Incidence angle,
Normalization,
SAR,
Sentinel-1,
Wheat
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 106, february 2022
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Saila
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Entidades Financiadoras
This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund (MINECO/FEDER-UE) through projects [CGL2016-75217-R and PID2019-107386RB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033] and doctoral grant [BES-2017-080560].