Radar-derived standwise forest inventory

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 392-404

  Hyyppä, Juha ^a,b   Pulliainen, Jouni ^a   Hallikainen, Martti ^a   Saatsi, Asko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Metsahallitus Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

NANOIMAGING; RANGING RADAR; SCATEROMETER; STANDWISE FOREST INVENTORY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0031102292     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563278     Document Type: Article

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