The ALOS PALSAR Mosaic over the African Continent - A Reference Baseline Dataset for Forest- and Land Cover Change Monitoring
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The mosaics are generated from the original 20 m resolution L-band SAR data, acquired in HH and HV polarisations. While ALOS PALSAR features a full-polarisation option, the dual-polarisation mode was selected as trade-off between mission programmatic restrictions and thematic information. To facilitate more rapid processing and file handling, the data are processed as extended strip images, 70 km in width and up to some 3000 km long, and filtered to 50 m pixels spacing to reduce speckle and data amounts.
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