Floodplain Vegetation Monitoring with the MetaSensing Airborne L-band Fully Polarimetric Radar

In this paper some preliminary results on the classification of vegetation in floodplains by means of the MetaSensing L-band fully polarimetric airborne radar sensor are shown. A test flight has been performed over two selected areas in the Netherlands, where ground truth surveys have been done to validate the outcome of the classification. The aim of the test flight was to access the potential of distinguishing vegetation types with different hydrodinamic roughness. The classification procedure is based on a eigenvalue/eigenvector decomposition of the coherency matrix of the fully polarimetric SAR data.