Relating SAR image texture and backscatter to tropical forest biomass

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 2872-2874

  Kuplich, Tatiana M ^a   Curran, Paul J ^b   Atkinson, Peter M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; JERS 1 SAR images; Texture measures; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; CULTIVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

TROPICAL FOREST BIOMASS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0242710123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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