The global rain forest mapping project JERS-1 radar mosaic of tropical africa: development and product characterization aspects

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2218-2233

  De Grandi, Gianfranco ^a   Mayaux, Philippe ^a   Rauste, Yrjo ^a,c   Rosenqvist, Ake ^a,b   Simard, Marc ^d   Saatchi, Sasan S ^d  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Geometric modeling; Image classification; Radar applications; Radar cross sections; Radar data processing; Radar signal analysis; Synthetic aperture radar (sar); Tropical regions; Vegetation mapping; Wavelet transforms

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIOMETRY; TROPICS;

RAIN FOREST;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 0034270646     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868880     Document Type: Article

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