On the generation of a forest biomass map for Northeast China: SAR interferometric processing and development of classification algorithm

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 610, 2006, Pages

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Cartus, Oliver ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a   Wegmüller, Urs ^b   Werner, Charles ^b   Wiesmann, Andreas ^b   Pang, Yong ^c   Li, Zengyuan ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY APPLICATIONS; TERRAIN INFORMATION IMAGES; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS (VCF);

PHOTOMAPPING;

EID: 33746597064     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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