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Hence, an exploratory assessment of the impacts of temporal and spatial baselines on coherence, with emphasis on how these effects vary between SAOCOM-1 L-band and Sentinel-1 C-band data is presented. The interferometric coherence is analyzed according to different imaging parameters. In the case of SAOCOM-1, the impacts of the variation of the incidence angle and the ascending and descending orbits over forested areas are also assessed. Finally, short-term 8-day interferometric coherence maps derived from SAOCOM-1 are especially addressed, since this is the first L-band spaceborne mission that allows us to acquire SAR images with such a short temporal span. The analysis is reported over two forest-production areas in Argentina, one of which is part of the most important region in terms of forest plantations at the national level. In the case of SAOCOM, interferometric configurations are characterized by a lack of control on the spatial baseline, so a zero-baseline orbital tube cannot be guaranteed. Nevertheless, this spatial baseline variability is crucial to exploit volume decorrelation for forest monitoring. The results from this exploratory analysis demonstrates that SAOCOM-1 short temporal baseline interferograms, 8 to 16 days, must be considered in order to mitigate temporal decorrelation effects and to be able to experiment with different spatial baseline configurations, in order to allow appropriate forest monitoring.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14225652","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,10]],"date-time":"2022-11-10T02:07:48Z","timestamp":1668046068000},"page":"5652","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Assessment of L-Band SAOCOM InSAR Coherence and Its Comparison with C-Band: A Case Study over Managed Forests in Argentina"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9571-0931","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Santiago Ariel","family":"Seppi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), C\u00f3rdoba X5187XAC, Argentina"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1366-9446","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlos","family":"L\u00f3pez-Martinez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Signal Theory & Communication Deptartment, Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7871-9782","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marisa Jacqueline","family":"Joseau","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de C\u00f3rdoba, C\u00f3rdoba X5000HUA, Argentina"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4993","DOI":"10.1029\/JB091iB05p04993","article-title":"Topographic mapping from interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations","volume":"91","author":"Zebker","year":"1986","journal-title":"J. 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