Branching Model for Vegetation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 390-402

  Yueh, Simon H ^a   Kong, J A ^a   Jao, Jen King ^b   Shin, Robert T ^b   Toan, Thuy Le ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - POLARIZATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - VECTORS; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES;

POLARIMETRIC BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; POLARIMETRIC REMOTE SENSING; TWO-SCALE CYLINDER CLUSTER; VEGETATION BRANCHING MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0026838707     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134088     Document Type: Article

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