Tree height influence on ERS interferometric phase in boreal forest

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-216

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Askne, Jan ^b   Dammert, Patrik B G ^b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Ericsson Microwave Systems AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheric artifacts; Boreal forest; European Remote Sensing (ERS); Interferometric water cloud model (IWCM); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Tree height

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; CLOUDS; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC ARTIFACTS; BOREAL FORESTS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING (ERS); INTERFEROMETRIC WATER CLOUD MODEL (IWCM); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) INTERFEROMETRY;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROWAVES; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TREE DIMENSIONS;

EID: 13144294080     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.841250     Document Type: Article

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