A study of the relationship between radar backscatter and regenerating tropical forest biomass for spaceborne SAR instruments

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-13

  Luckman, Adrian ^a   Baker, John ^a   Kuplich, Tatiana Mora ^b   Corina da Costa, Freitas Yanasse ^b   Alejandro, C Frery ^c  

^a National Space Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FORESTRY; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CROSS POLARIZED RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADAR MEAN BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST REGENERATION; RADAR; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SAR; SAR IMAGERY; TROPICS;

BRAZIL, AMAZON BASIN; BRAZIL, PARA STATE, TAPAJOS;

EID: 0030615907     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00121-6     Document Type: Article

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