Environmental effects on the interferometric repeat-pass coherence of forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 825-837

  Drezet, Pierre M L ^b   Quegan, Shaun ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Earth Science Advisory Committee ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherence; Dielectric; Dynamic; Forest; Multitemporal; Synthetic aperature radar (SAR); Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CANOPY DIELECTRIC; FOREST; MULTITEMPORAL; SATELLITE DATA;

BACKSCATTERING; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INTERFEROMETRY; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SOIL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33645680748     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.864387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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