The invention belongs to the technical field of forest
remote sensing, and discloses a P-band SAR polarization characteristic-based
forest type identification method, which comprises the following steps of: solving a coherence matrix and a
covariance matrix on the basis of a pre-processed
polarization scattering matrix, and carrying out
wavelength dependence correction on basic
radar statistical characteristics for a forest three-layer vertical superposition scattering structure formed by a P band; extracting feature subsets of a scattering mechanism related to a forest vertical structure, integrating the corrected basic features and adding polarization
phase difference and scattering mechanism combination coefficient feature dimensions to form a complete polarization
feature set covering multiple types of features, and extracting various
terrain parameters of a target forest region based on DEM data to obtain a complete polarization
feature set covering multiple types of features; performing
terrain sensitivity analysis on the preliminarily screened feature subset and dividing sensitivity grades, constructing an adaptive
terrain correction model in combination with P-band under-forest surface scattering proportion characteristics, and introducing a
radar wave polarization state correction term to complete feature
radiation normalization correction.