Toward precision forestry: Plot-level parameter retrieval for slash pine plantations with JPL AIRSAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1571-1582

  Kellndorfer, Josef M ^a   Dobson, M Craig ^a   Vona, John D ^b   Clutter, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Plum Creek Timber Company   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airsar; Forest parameters; Multifrequency; Multipolarization; Slash pine; Timber management

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HARVESTING; POLARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

COHERENT MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0042429069     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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