Analysis of forest biomass variation in the Amazon and its' influence on the response of P-band SAR polarimetric data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4879, Issue , 2002, Pages 252-259

  Dos Santos, João Roberto ^a   De Araujo, Luciana Spinelli ^a   Da Costa Freitas, Corina ^a   De Souza Soler, Luciana ^a   Gama, Fábio Furlan ^a   Dutra, Luciano Vieira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biomass; Inventory; P band data; Secondary succession; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAND USE; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

P-BAND IMAGERY ACQUISITION; P-BAND POLARIMETRIC DATA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0038532568     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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