Monitoring tree moisture using an estimation algorithm applied to SAR sata from BOREAS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 901-916

  Moghaddam, Mahta ^a   Saatchi, Sasan S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

TREE MOISTURE MONITORING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033098467     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752209     Document Type: Article

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