Dependence of Radar Backscatter on Coniferous Forest Biomass

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 412-415

  Dobson, M Craig ^a   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^b   Beaudoin, Andre ^b   Kasischke, Eric S ^c   Christensen, Norm ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING;

BIOMASS SATURATION LEVEL; CONIFEROUS FOREST BIOMASS; RADAR BACKSCATTER;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0026835437     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134090     Document Type: Article

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