Estimation of crown and stem water content and biomass of boreal forest using polarimetric SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 697-709

  Saatchi, Sasan S ^a   Moghaddam, Mahta ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; WATER;

BIOMETRY MEASUREMENT; BOREAL FOREST; CROWN WATER; SEMIEMPIRICAL ALGORITHM; STEM WATER;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0033899076     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841999     Document Type: Article

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