Applicability of airborne profiling radar to forest inventory

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-57

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a   Hallikainen, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; HELICOPTERS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

AIRBORNE PROFILING RADAR; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS; RADAR STAND PROFILES; RANGING SCATTEROMETER;

RADAR;

AIRBORNE PROFILING RADAR; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST STAND; HELICOPTER SCATTEROMETER; HUTSCAT; RADAR; SCATTEROMETER;

FINLAND, HELSINKI;

EID: 0030176842     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-4257(95)00254-5     Document Type: Article

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