Relating Forest Biomass to SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 403-411

  Le Toan, T ^a   Beaudoin, A ^a   Riom, J ^b   Guyon, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b INRA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING; STATISTICAL METHODS - REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FOREST BIOMASS; POLARIZATION PHASE DIFFERENCE; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SAR DATA;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0026838244     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134089     Document Type: Article

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