Multipolarization SAR Data for Surface Feature Delineation and Forest Vegetation Characterization

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-25, Issue 1, 1987, Pages 67-76

  Wu, Shih Tseng ^a   Sader, Steven A ^a  

^a NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY - REMOTE SENSING; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACES - ROUGHNESS MEASUREMENT;

FOREST VEGETATION CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIPOLARIZATION SAR; SURFACE FEATURE DELINEATION;

RADAR;

EID: 0023139077     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1987.289782     Document Type: Article

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