Potential of Polarimetric SAR Interferometry for Forest Carbon Accounting

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1945-1947

  Balzter, H ^a   Rowland, C ^a   Milne, R ^a   Stebler, O ^d   Patenaude, G ^b   Dawson, T ^b   Saich, P ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d University College London ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FOREST BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0242626783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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