Multitemporal behavior of L- and C-band SAR observations of boreal forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 2 II, 1999, Pages 927-937

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

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Backscattering modeling; Remote sensing of forests

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOMASS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FORESTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033099198     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.752211     Document Type: Article

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