Remotely sensed indicators of habitat heterogeneity: Use of synthetic aperture radar in mapping vegetation structure and bird habitat

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-227

  Imhoff, Marc L ^a   Sisk, Thomas D ^b,c   Milne, Anthony ^d   Morgan, Garth ^e   Orr, Tony ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; MAPPING; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIRD HABITAT; HABITAT HETEROGENEITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIRD DIVERSITY; HABITAT; MAPPING; RADAR; SAR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA; KAKADU NATIONAL PARK; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; NASA;

EID: 0031171027     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0034-4257(96)00116-2     Document Type: Article

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