Power spectrum analysis of SAR data for spatial forest characterization in Amazonia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2851-2864

  Neeff, T ^a,b,c   Dutra, L V ^a   Dos Santos, J R ^a   Freitas, C C ^a   Araujo, L S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CORRELOGRAMS; PERIODIGRAMS; POWER SPECTRUM;

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 22744446255     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500104301     Document Type: Article

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