Spaceborne Applications of P Band Imaging Radars for Measuring Forest Biomass

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1162-1169

  Rignot, Eric J ^a   Zimmermann, Reiner ^a   van Zyl, Jakob J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ESTIMATION; FARADAY EFFECT; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; FARADAY ROTATION; FOREST BIOMASS; P-BAND; RADAR SIGNALS; RADAR SIGNATURE; SPACEBORNE APPLICATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0029368113     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469480     Document Type: Article

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