Vegetation characteristics and underlying topography from interferometric radar

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1449-1485

  Treuhaft, Robert N ^a   Madsen, Søren N ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a   Van Zyl, Jakob J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGY; ERRORS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

UNDERLYING TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS;

REMOTE SENSING; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

BACKSCATTERING AMPLITUDE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION;

EID: 0030290179     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS01763     Document Type: Article

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