Retrieval of biomass in boreal forests from multitempotal ERS-1 and JERS-1 SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 198-205

  Kurvonen, Lauri ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni ^a   Hallikainen, Martti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Backscattering properties of boreal forests; Ers 1 synthetic aperture radar (sar); Forest biomass estimation; JERS 1 SAR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MOISTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

INVERSION ALGORITHMS; SEMIEMPIRICAL BACKSCATTER MODELS; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032710247     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739154     Document Type: Article

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