@inproceedings{d9650bbd4ad84c84adfdb62ef3c86d8a,
title = "Intercomparison of Earth Observation Data and Methods for Forest Mapping in the Context of Forest Carbon Monitoring",
abstract = "ESA Forest Carbon Monitoring project (FCM) is developing Earth Observation based, user-centric approaches for forest carbon monitoring. Forest carbon accounting based on forest inventory requires precise and timely estimation of forest variables at various spatial levels accompanied by verifiable uncertainty information. In this paper, we present the algorithm trade-off and selection approach and preliminary results of the algorithm intercomparison exercise in the FCM project. The studies were performed over 7 European test sites located in Finland, Ireland, Romania, Spain and Switzerland, and one tropical forest site in Peru. EO datasets were represented by Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, TanDEM-X and ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 imagery. Examined approaches include popular parametric and SAR/InSAR scattering physics based approaches, and nonparametric and machine learning approaches such as k-NN, random forests, support vector regression.",
keywords = "ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, clustering, forest carbon, forest management, interferometry, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, synthetic aperture radar, TanDEM-X",
author = "Oleg Antropov and Jukka Miettinen and Tuomas Hame and Rauste Yrjo and Lauri Seitsonen and McRoberts, {Ronald E.} and Maurizio Santoro and Oliver Cartus and Duran, {Natalia Malaga} and Martin Herold and Matteo Pardini and Kostas Papathanassiou and Irena Hajnsek",
note = "Funding Information: The research was funded by ESA within Forest Carbon Monitoring project. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 IEEE.; 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2022 ; Conference date: 17-07-2022 Through 22-07-2022",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS46834.2022.9884618",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-6654-2793-7",
series = "IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings",
publisher = "IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers",
pages = "5777--5780",
booktitle = "IGARSS 2022",
address = "United States",
}