Radar Modeling Of A Boreal Forest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 627-638

  Chauhan, Narinder S ^a   Lang, Roger H ^a   Ranson, K Jon ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY - REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVES - BACKSCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING;

FOREST STANDS; MICROWAVE MODELING; RADAR BACKSCATTERING;

RADAR;

EID: 0026189338     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.135825     Document Type: Article

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