The calculated performance of forest structure and biomass estimates from interferometric radar

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Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Treuhaft, Robert N ^a   Siqueira, Paul R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL NOISE; VEGETATION;

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; RANDOM VOLUME MODEL; TREE HEIGHT; VEGETATION DENSITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1942436853     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/2/013     Document Type: Article

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