Tropical forest biomass density estimation using JERS-1 SAR: Seasonal variation, confidence limits, and application to image mosaics

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 126-139

  Luckman, Adrian ^a   Baker, John ^b   Honzák, Miroslav ^a   Lucas, Richard ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); IMAGE MOSAICS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; JERS-1; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0031988534     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(97)00133-8     Document Type: Article

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