Vegetation Studies of the Amazon Basin Using Enhanced Resolution Seasat Scatterometer Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 449-460

  Long, David G ^a   Hardin, Perry J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADAR;

ENHANCED RADAR MEASUREMENTS; GENERATION VEGETATION CLASSES; KU-BAND RADAR IMAGES; NEAR-SURFACE WIND FIELD MEASUREMENTS; SEASAT-A SCATTEROMETER (SASS); SURFACE RADAR BACKSCATTER;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0028403158     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295059     Document Type: Article

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