Airborne P-band SAR applied to the aboveground biomass studies in the Brazilian tropical rainforest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 482-493

  Santos, João R ^a   Freitas, Corina C ^a   Araujo, Luciana S ^a   Dutra, Luciano V ^a   Mura, José C ^a   Gama, Fábio F ^a   Soler, Luciana S ^a   Sant'Anna, Sidnei J S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Biomass; P band SAR data; Remote sensing; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DENDROMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BRAZIL; PARA [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0442329982     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2002.12.001     Document Type: Article

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