Boreal forest coherence-based measures of interferometric pair suitability for operational stem volume retrieval

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 228-231

  Engdahl, Marcus E ^a   Pulliainen, Jouni T ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^b  

^a ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; PEAT; SOILS; VEGETATION;

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING (ERS-1/2); IMAGE ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE-CONTRAST (ICC); INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3342959873     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.829610     Document Type: Article

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