Retrieval of Biomass in Boreal Forest from Multi-temporal ERS-1/2 Interferometry

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 478, 2000, Pages 401-408

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Askne, Jan ^a   Dammert, Patrik B G ^a   Fransson, Johan E S ^a   Smith, Gary ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass; Coherence analysis; Forestry; Land classification

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLOUDS; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SNOW; VEGETATION;

COHERENCE ANALYSIS; LAND CLASSIFICATION; TRANSMISSIVITY COEFFICIENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0347651371     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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