COMPARATIVE STUDY ON C AND L BAND SAR FOR FIRE SCAR MONITORING

摘要

During the drought caused by El-Nino in 1997 to 1998, Indonesia has experienced one of the greatest fire disaster ever observed in a tropical rainforest environment in SE-Asia. Following this event ESA and NASDA decided to set up a co-operation project to compare and combine the capabilities of the two SAR satellite sensors systems ERS-1/2 and JERS-1 aiming at an in depth analysis of this disaster. It was investigated whether these SAR systems can provide high resolution data on the pre-fire vegetation cover, the extent of the fire affected area and the damage to the vegetation. The results of the evaluation were quantitatively compared to a Landsat TM scene acquired during the fires and extensive field and aerial surveys.