Analysis of Scattering Mechanisms in SAR Imagery over Boreal Forest: Results from BOREAS '93

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1290-1296

  Moghaddam, Mahta ^a   Saatchi, Sasan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST SCATTERING MODEL; GROUND-TRUTH MEASUREMENTS; JACK PINE TREES; MECHANISM-SPECIFIC INVERSION TECHNIQUE; RADAR BACKSCATTER; SCATTERING MECHANISM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0029368085     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469495     Document Type: Article

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