Evaluating the Type and State of Alaska Taiga Forests with Imaging Radar for Use in Ecosystem Models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 353-370

  Way, Jobea ^a   Bonan, Gordon ^b   Dobson, Myron Craig ^c   Viereck, Leslie A ^d   Roth, Joanna E ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Institute of Northern Forestry   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGY; RADAR;

ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; ECOSYSTEM MODELS; GLOBAL WARMING PATTERNS; SOIL-FREEZE THAW; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

FORESTRY;

EID: 0028403707     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.295050     Document Type: Article

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