Large-scale mapping of boreal forest in SIBERIA using ERS tandem coherence and JERS backscatter data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-144

  Wagner, Wolfgang ^a,i   Luckman, Adrian ^b   Vietmeier, Jan ^a   Tansey, Kevin ^b,j   Balzter, Heiko ^c   Schmullius, Christiane ^d   Davidson, Malcolm ^e,k   Gaveau, David ^c,l   Gluck, Michael ^f,m   Le Toan, Thuy ^e   Quegan, Shaun ^g   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^f   Wiesmann, Andreas ^h   Yu, Jiong Jiong ^g,n  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e CESBIO   (France)

^f Institute for Applied Systems Analysis   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^h GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

ⁱ VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^j JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^k EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^l Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

^m ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

ⁿ Surface Inspection Limited   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Forestry; Interferometry; SAR; Siberia; Tandem coherence

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EMPIRICAL MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTER; BOREAL FOREST; ERS-1; ERS-2; INTERFEROMETRY; JERS-1; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTS; FORESTS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0242432323     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00198-0     Document Type: Article

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