On the sensitivity of polarimetric SAR measurements to vegetation cover: the Coiba National Park, Panama

Experiments, undertaken using actual L-band full-polarimetric SAR and Landsat data, show that a polarimetric information plays a key role in improving the classification accuracy with some polarimetric features performing better than single-polarization and optical ones, b classification performance of radar features is significantly affected by incidence angles, and c a joint use of different radar features is expected to increase classification accuracy.