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Being based on the ability of PolSAR measurements to retrieve ground slopes through dense vegetation, this performance indicator requires the use of low frequencies such as P-band, as well as fully polarimetric data. This study has thereby a particular interest in the context of the upcoming BIOMASS spaceborne mission whose launch is scheduled in 2023, and makes use of data from the TropiSAR airborne campaign initiated in the early stage of the mission developments. Conducted over several test sites of tropical dense forests in French Guiana, this campaign gives us the opportunity herein to exploit P-band temporal stacks with repeated time intervals transposable to BIOMASS in terms of signal decorrelation. The application of the generalized multichannel speckle filter to the Paracou test site dataset reveals the limitations of the standard ENL analytical formula to assess speckle reduction in the case of spatially correlated media like dense forests, and for this purpose the interest of the correlation between POA and azimuthal slopes computed from an independent Digital Surface Model.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13010142","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,4]],"date-time":"2021-01-04T21:58:36Z","timestamp":1609797516000},"page":"142","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Multi-Temporal Speckle Filtering of Polarimetric P-Band SAR Data over Dense Tropical Forests: Study Case in French Guiana for the BIOMASS Mission"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Colette","family":"Gelas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"Centre National d\u2019Etude Spatial (CNES), 31400 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"Capgemini, 31100 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Ludovic","family":"Villard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Laurent","family":"Ferro-Famil","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"Institut d\u2019\u00c9lectronique et des Technologies du num\u00e9Rique (IETR), Universit\u00e9 de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes CEDEX, France"}]},{"given":"Laurent","family":"Polidori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Thierry","family":"Koleck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre d\u2019Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsph\u00e8re (CESBIO), Universit\u00e9 de Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France"},{"name":"Centre National d\u2019Etude Spatial (CNES), 31400 Toulouse, France"}]},{"given":"Sandrine","family":"Daniel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Capgemini, 31100 Toulouse, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"D\u2019Alessandro, M.M., Tebaldini, S., Quegan, S., Soja, M., and Ulander, L.M.H. 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