The potential of multifrequency polarimetric sar in assessing agricultural and arboreous biomass

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-17

  Ferrazzoli, P ^a   Paloscia, S ^b   Pampaloni, P ^b   Schiavon, G ^b   Sigismondi, S ^b   Solimini, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; Classification; Polarimetry; Radar; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CROPS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; FARMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL BIOMASS; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; ARBOREOUS BIOMASS; FORESTS; POLARIMETRIC RADAR; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0030736678     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551929     Document Type: Article

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