Seasonal dynamics of C-band backscatter of boreal forests with applications to biomass and soil moisture estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 758-770

  Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a   Mikkela, Petri J ^a   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a   Ikonen, Jari Pekka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LAND USE; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SNOW; SOILS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FORESTS; C BAND BACKSCATTERING; CANOPY MOISTURE; FOREST STEM VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION RANGING SCATTEROMETER; SOIL MOISTURE;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0030149315     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.499781     Document Type: Article

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