Boreal Forest Ecosystem Characterization with SIR-C/XSAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 867-876

  Ranson, K Jon ^a   Saatchi, Sasan ^b   Sun, Guoqing ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST BIOMASS; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; MULTIPLE POLARIZATION; SPACEBORNE IMAGING RADAR-C;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029340978     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.406673     Document Type: Article

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