Preliminary Analysis of ERS-1 SAR for Forest Ecosystem Studies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 203-211

  Dobson, M Craig ^a,b   Pierce, Leland ^a,b   Sarabandi, Kamal ^a,b   Ulaby, Fawwaz T ^a,b   Sharik, Terry ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADAR - SYNTHETIC APERTURE; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS - MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

ERS-1 SAR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM STUDIES; GRASS-COVERED SOILS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TRIHEDRAL CORNER REFLECTORS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0026840173     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.134071     Document Type: Article

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