Structure-based forest biomass from fusion of radar and hyperspectral observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Treuhaft, Robert N ^a   Asner, Gregory P ^b   Law, Beverly E ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING;

LEAF AREA DENSITY;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FOREST COVER; NDVI; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0041738930     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016857     Document Type: Article

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