Application of RADARSAT imagery to grassland biophysical heterogeneity assessment

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 281-287

  Zhang, Chunhua ^a   Guo, Xulin ^a   Wilmshurst, John ^b   Sissons, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^c Grasslands National Park   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION; BIOMASS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOPHYSICAL HETEROGENEITY ASSESSMENT; GRASSLANDS NATIONAL PARK (GNP); HEIGHT HETEROGENEITY INDEX; SHANNON'S INDEX; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; BIOPHYSICAL HETEROGENEITY; STANDARD MODE IMAGES;

RADAR IMAGING; LANDFORMS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 33750983363     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m06-025     Document Type: Article

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