The Use of a Helicopter Mounted Ranging Scatterometer for Estimation of Extinction and Scattering Properties of Forest Canopies Part II: Experimental Results for High-Density Aspen

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 144-152

  Pitts, David E ^a   Badhwar, Gautam D ^a   Reyna, Eddie ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b Lockheed EMSCO ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR - CROSS SECTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BACKSCATTERING PROPERTIES; EXTINCTION PROPERTIES; FOREST CANOPIES; HELICOPTER MOUNTED SCATTEROMETER; RANGING SCATTEROMETER;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0023978863     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.3015     Document Type: Article

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