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The investigated data set was acquired between 2011 in bistatic stripmap single polarization (HH) mode. Among the different factors affecting the quality of InSAR data, the so-called volume correlation factor quantifies the coherence loss due to volume scattering, which typically occurs in the presence of vegetation, and is a very sensitive indicator for the discrimination of forested from non-forested areas. For this reason, it has been chosen as input observable for performing the classification. In this framework, both standard boxcar and nonlocal filtering methods have been considered for the estimation of the volume correlation factor. The resulting forest\/non-forest mosaics have been validated using an accurate vegetation map of the region derived from Lidar-Optic data as external independent reference. Thanks to their outstanding performance in terms of noise reduction, together with spatial features preservation, nonlocal filters show a level of agreement of about 80.5% and we observed a systematic improvement in terms of accuracy with respect to the boxcar filtering at the same resolution of about 4.5 percent points. This approach is therefore of primary importance to achieve a reliable classification at such fine resolution. Finally, the high-resolution forest\/non-forest classification product of the State of Pennsylvania presented in this paper demonstrates once again the outstanding capabilities of the TanDEM-X system for a wide spectrum of commercial services and scientific applications in the field of the biosphere.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10091477","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,17]],"date-time":"2018-09-17T10:42:20Z","timestamp":1537180940000},"page":"1477","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["High-Resolution Forest Mapping from TanDEM-X Interferometric Data Exploiting Nonlocal Filtering"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4601-6599","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michele","family":"Martone","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1593-1492","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francescopaolo","family":"Sica","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carolina","family":"Gonz\u00e1lez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3464-2186","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9-Luis","family":"Bueso-Bello","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paolo","family":"Valdo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Paola","family":"Rizzoli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Chen, Z., Marquis, M., Averyt, K., Tignor, M., and Miller, H. 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