An evaluation of AIRSAR and SIR-C/X-SAR images for mapping northern forest attributes in Maine, USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-222

  Ranson, K Jon ^a   Sun, Guoqing ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSAR; BIOMASS; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CLASSIFICATION; FOREST CLASSIFICATION; FOREST COVER; INSTRUMENT EVALUATION; MAPPING; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SIR-C/X-SAR; SPACEBORNE IMAGING RADAR C; X-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

USA, MAINE;

BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; ECOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS DENSITIES; FOREST COVER MAPPING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0030615381     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00154-X     Document Type: Article

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