Biophysical forest type characterization in the Colombian Amazon by airborne polarimetric SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1288-1300

  Hoekman, Dirk H ^a,b   Quiñones, Marcela J ^b  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biophysical characterization; Polarimetric decomposition; Radar polarimetry; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTRY; MAPPING; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTS;

EID: 0036613517     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.800242     Document Type: Article

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