DLR
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Land
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TanDEM-X
Forest Map
Global Forest Map
TanDEM-X Global Forest
The TanDEM-X Forest/Non-Forest Map is a project developed by the Microwaves and Radar Institute at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), within the activities of the TanDEM-X mission. The goal is the derivation of a global forest/non-forest classification mosaic from TanDEM-X bistatic interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data, acquired for the generation of the global digital elevation model (DEM) in Stripmap single polarization (HH) mode.
The TanDEM-X Forest/Non-Forest Map (FNF) has been generated by processing and mosaicking more than 500,000 TanDEM-X bistatic images acquired from 2011 until 2015. The map has a spatial resolution of 50 m x 50 m. Forested and non-forested areas are depicted in green and white, respectively. Water bodies are depicted in blue and black is used for identifying urban areas and invalid pixels.
References:
- Martone, M., Rizzoli, R., Wecklich, C., González, C., Bueso-Bello, J.L., Valdo, P., Schulze, D., Zink, M., Krieger, G., Moreira, A., 2018. The Global Forest/Non-Forest Map from TanDEM-X Interferometric SAR Data. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 205, pp. 352-373.
- Martone, M., Sica, F., González, C., Bueso-Bello, J.L., Valdo, P., Rizzoli, P., 2018. High-Resolution Forest Mapping from TanDEM-X Interferometric Data Exploiting Nonlocal Filtering. Remote Sens., 10, 1477.
