Monitoring under foliage with airborne SAR

Three different features of FOPEN (foliage penetration) SAR are presented, namely, forest ground modeling, slow movement measurements under the foliage and concealed target detection. The paper discusses, through latest results and ongoing work examples, how these features can be put together in order to derive new and valuable monitoring information under the vegetation cover such as risk assessment, illegal activities detection and early warning.

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