Polarization Signatures of Frozen and Thawed Forests of Varying Environmental State

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 371-381

  Kwok, Ronald ^a   Holt, John ^b   Way, Jobea ^a   Freeman, Anthony ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETERS;

L-BAND POLARIMETRIC OBSERVATIONS; POLARIMETRIC SIGNATURES; STOKES MATRICES; THAWED FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0028402582     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295051     Document Type: Article

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