Boreal forest information content of multi-season, multi-polarization c-band SAR Data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 456-472

  Ahern, F J ^a   Zhang, Cishen ^b   Brown, J ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b Dendron Resources Surveys Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FORESTS; MULTIPOLARIZATION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0030379949     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.1996.10874670     Document Type: Article

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