Stereo radarsat data for canopy height in brazilian forests

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 189-199

  Toutin, Thierry ^a   Amaral, Silvana ^b  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CANOPY HEIGHT; CLEARING BOUNDARIES; STEREO IMAGES;

REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTS;

EID: 0034197085     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2000.10874769     Document Type: Article

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