The potential of c- and l-band sar in estimating vegetation biomass: the ers-1 and jers-1 experiments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2107-2110

  Paloscia, Simonetta ^a   Macelloni, Giovanni ^a   Pampaloni, Paolo ^a   Sigismondi, Simone ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032680989     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.774723     Document Type: Article

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