Seasonal dynamics of cband backscatter of boreal forests with applications to biomass and soil moisture estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 758770-

  Pulliainen, Jouni T ^a   Mikkelä, Petri J ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^c   Ikonen, Jari Pekka ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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EID: 33747939889     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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