Forestry parameter retrieval from texture in CARABAS VHF-band SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2622-2633

  Manninen, A Terhikki ^b   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Texture

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES; WEATHERING;

FORESTRY PARAMETER RETRIEVAL;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TREE DIMENSIONS;

EID: 0035694496     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.974997     Document Type: Article

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