Predicting backscatter-biomass and height-biomass trends using a macroecology model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 871-877

  Woodhouse, Iain Hector ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Edinburgh Earth Observatory   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Forestry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Vegetation

Indexed keywords

LOW-OPACITY CANOPIES; MACROECOLOGY; PREDICTING BACKSCATTER-BIOMASS;

BACKSCATTERING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; FORESTS; PLANTS; RADAR;

EID: 33645654485     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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