Properties of ERS-1/2 coherence in the Siberian boreal forest and implications for stem volume retrieval

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 154-172

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Shvidenko, Anatoly ^b   McCallum, Ian ^b   Askne, Jan ^c   Schmullius, Christiane ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Coherence; ERS 1 2; Retrieval; SAR interferometry; Stem volume

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; ERS-1/2; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; STEM VOLUME;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST INVENTORY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SIBERIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 33845976718     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.08.004     Document Type: Article

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