USDA-FSA Aerial Photography Field Office Fugro Earth Data Yazoo County, Mississippi GeoSAR Evaluation Report

摘要

The GeoSAR data evaluated was collected by Fugro EarthData, under contract with the USDA Farm Service Agency's Aerial Photography Field Office. GeoSAR is a system of data capture and is a type of Airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR). It was collected in Yazoo County, Mississippi on August 29 - 31 2007. The purpose of this collection was to demonstrate the utility of Airborne IFSAR data to replace optical imagery data collected in the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). The GeoSAR data was evaluated on elevation quality versus the NED, all weather acquisition capabilities, its potential as a CLU creation source, semi-automated crop identification and any other general applications.