ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-5-295-2018 DETECTION OF FOREST DISTURBANCE USING TANDEM-X POL-INSAR COHERENCE Musthafa M. 1 Singh G. 1 Khati U. 1 Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 19 11 2018 XLII-5 295 297 Copyright: © 2018 M. Musthafa et al. 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-5/295/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-5-295-2018.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-5/295/2018/isprs-archives-XLII-5-295-2018.pdf

This current study shows the potential of TanDEM-X pol-InSAR coherence to identify progressive selective logging of Teak plantation in Uttarakhand, India. Pol-InSAR data were acquired over four months with 11 days interval with perpendicular baseline varying from 111 to 689 m. Progressive selective logging of mature teak plantation from January to February was analyzed using time-series pol-InSAR coherences. The results shows the baseline selection critical for forest change studies. TanDEM-X derived pol-InSAR coherence would enable us to detect the change in forest structure with high reliability.