Correlating Radar Backscatter with Components of Biomass in Loblolly Pine Forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 643-659

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Christensen, Norman L ^b   Bourgeau Chavez, Laura L ^a  

^a ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; FORESTS; RADAR BACKSCATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029309560     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.387580     Document Type: Article

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