Monitoring coniferous forest characteristics using a multifrequency (5-90 GHz) microwave radiometer

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 299-310

  Wigneron, Jean Pierre ^a   Guyon, Dominique ^a   Calvet, Jean Christophe ^b   Courrier, Gaston ^a   Bruguier, Nadine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PINUS PINASTER; PINACEAE;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONIFEROUS FORESTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER;

RADIOMETERS;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; EMISSIVITY; MARITIME PINE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE SENSING; PINE FOREST; PINE STAND; PORTOS; REMOTE SENSING;

FRANCE; LANDES;

EID: 0031156288     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4257(96)00212-x     Document Type: Article

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