The sensitivity of sar backscatter to forest windthrow gaps

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2419-2425

  Green, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; CANOPY GAP; FOREST CANOPY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0031762258     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311698214811     Document Type: Article

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