Multitemporal JERS repeat-pass coherence for growing-stock volume estimation of Siberian forest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 7 PART I, 2003, Pages 1561-1570

  Eriksson, Leif E B ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Wiesmann, Andreas ^b   Schmullius, Christiane C ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Growing stock volume; Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JERS); Repeat pass coherence; Siberia; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHERENT LIGHT; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

GROWING-STOCK VOLUME;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0042929771     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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