Detection of storm-damaged forested areas using airborne CARABAS-II VHF SAR image data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2170-2175

  Fransson, Johan E S ^a   Walter, Fredrik ^b   Blennow, Kristina ^a   Gustavsson, Anders ^c   Ulander, Lars M H ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Dianthus   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CARABAS; SAR; Storm damage assessment; VHF

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; HURRICANE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR BACKSCATTERING; REGRESSION MODEL; STORM DAMAGED FORESTED AREAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; WIND THROWN FORESTS;

REMOTE SENSING;

FORESTRY; FORESTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036822096     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.804913     Document Type: Article

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