Land cover type and biomass classification using AirSAR data for evaluation of monitoring scenarios in the Colombian Amazon

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 685-696

  Hoekman, Dirk H ^a   Quinones, Marcela J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FARADAY EFFECT; FORESTRY; LAND RECLAMATION; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECKLE;

BUSH INVADED GRASSLAND; COLOMBIAN AMAZON; GLOBAL MONITORING SYSTEM; KAPPA STATISTICS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; OPTIMAL WAVE PARAMETER; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST AREA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0033876572     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841998     Document Type: Article

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