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SAR tomography, a technique employing multiple acquisitions over the same areas to form a three-dimensional image, has been demonstrated to improve SAR\u2019s capability in many applications. Our study shows the potential value of SAR tomography acquisitions to improve forest classification. By using P-band tomographic SAR data from the German Aerospace Center F-SAR sensor during the AfriSAR campaign in February 2016, the vertical profiles of five different forest types at a tropical forest site in Mondah, Gabon (South Africa) were analyzed and exploited for the classification task. We demonstrated that the high sensitivity of SAR tomography to forest vertical structure enables the improvement of classification performance by up to 33%. Interestingly, by using the standard Random Forest technique, we found that the ground (i.e., at 5\u201310 m) and volume layers (i.e., 20\u201340 m) play an important role in identifying the forest type. Together, these results suggested the promise of the TomoSAR technique for mapping forest types with high accuracy in tropical areas and could provide strong support for the next Earth Explorer BIOMASS spaceborne mission which will collect P-band tomographic SAR data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13040696","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,14]],"date-time":"2021-02-14T08:53:56Z","timestamp":1613292836000},"page":"696","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Potential of P-Band SAR Tomography in Forest Type Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0116-1642","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dinh","family":"Ho Tong Minh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"UMR TETIS, INRAE, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Yen-Nhi","family":"Ngo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Independent Researcher, 34090 Montpellier, France"}]},{"given":"Thu Trang","family":"L\u00ea","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, 18 Vien Street,  Hanoi 11910, Vietnam"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"FAO (2020). 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