Retrieval of forest stem volume using VHP SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-40

  Israelsson, Hans ^a   Ulander, Lars M H ^a   Askne, Jann I H ^a   Fransson, Johan E S ^a   Frölind, Per Olov ^a   Gustavsson, Anders ^a   Hellsten, Hans ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CARABAS; SAR; Stem volume; VHP

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; BANDWIDTH; BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT; COHERENT ALL RADIO BAND SENSING; FOREST STEM VOLUME; MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES; VEGETATION; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0030783574     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551932     Document Type: Article

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