The GBFM radar mosaic of the eurasian taiga: Selected topics on geo-location and preliminary thematic products

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 507-510

  De Grandi, Gianfranco ^a   Spirolazzi, Valeria ^a   Rauste, Yrjo A ^b   Curto, Luigi ^b   Rosenqvist, Ake ^c   Shimada, Masanobu ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; GBFM; Geolocation; Radar mosaic; Vegetation map

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; VEGETATION;

GEOLOCATION; GLOBAL BOREAL FOREST MAPPING PROJECT (GBFM); RADAR MOSAIC; VEGETATION MAPS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; RADAR; TAIGA;

EID: 15944401382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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