Mapping Biomass of a Northern Forest Using Multifrequency SAR Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 388-396

  Ranson, K Jon ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIMETERS; RADAR;

AIRCRAFT DATA; BACKSCATTER MODELINGS; GLOBAL FOREST BIOMASS; POLARIMETRIC RADAR DATA;

BIOMASS;

EID: 0028402583     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295053     Document Type: Article

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