Relating radar backscatter to biophysical properties of temperate perennial grassland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-31

  Hill, Michael J ^a   Donald, Graham E ^a   Vickery, Peter J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b 12 Caroline Crescent ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETERS; PROBABILITY; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE ENGINE; RADAR BACKSCATTER; TEMPERATE PERENNIAL GRASSLAND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; GRASSLAND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032775280     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(98)00063-7     Document Type: Article

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