The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the capability of radio detection and ranging (radar) data collected by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Array type Lband Synthetic Aperture radar (PALSAR), supported by field measurements obtained through ground survey, to predict and map Above Ground Woody Biomass (AGWB) in the tropical savannas of the developing country of Belize, and ...

UC Irvine Previously Published Works Title Changes in West Antarctic ice stream dynamics observed with ALOS PALSAR data Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db3r20j Journal Geophysical Research Letters, 35(12) ISSN 0094-8276 Author Rignot, E Publication Date 2008-06-28 DOI 10.1029/2008GL033365 Supplemental Material https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0db3r20j#supplemental License CC BY 4.0 ...

Different Faraday Rotation (FR) estimators are discussed, their estimation performances are assessed and compared to each other. The algorithms are applied on a set of quad-pol ALOS Pal-SAR data and the obtained estimates are validated against FR values derived from TEC maps obtained from GPS measurements.

Remote sensing data from multi-source optical and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensors have been widely utilized to detect forest dynamics under a variety of conditions. Due to different temporal coverage, spatial resolution, and spectral characteristics, these sensors usually perform differently from one another. To conduct statistical modeling accuracies evaluation and comparison among seve...

Chronic disease management programs (CDMPs) were introduced in Australia to reduce unnecessary health care utilization by the growing population with chronic conditions; however, evidence of effectiveness is needed. This study evaluated the impact of a comprehensive CDMP, My Health Guardian (MHG), on rate of hospital admissions, readmissions, and average length of hospital stay (ALOS) for insur...

Topographical information is fundamental to many geo-spatial related information and applications on Earth. Remote sensing satellites have the advantage in such fields because they are capable of global observation and repeatedly. Several satellite-based digital elevation datasets were provided to examine global terrains with medium resolutions e.g. the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), ...

The purpose of the proposed work is to examine the feasibility of using Polarimetric Interferometric SAR (PolInSAR) techniques on ALOS PALSAR data to extract forest canopy heights with the ultimate objective of deriving biomass estimates. Previous work [1] has shown that in homogeneous European forest stands, tree height is a reasonably robust estimator of biomass through a simple allometric re...