SAR Interferometric Signatures of Forest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1153-1161

  Wegmüller, Urs ^a,b   Werner, Charles L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CULTIVATION; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; FREEZING; MAPPING; MONITORING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER INTENSITIES; CANOPY GROWTH; FOREST MAPPING; INTERFEROMETRIC BASELINE; INTERFEROMETRIC CORRELATION; INTERFEROMETRIC SIGNATURES; MECHANICAL CULTIVATION; REPEAT-PASS DATA; TIME INTERVAL;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0029368134     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469479     Document Type: Article

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