Selection of forest stands for stem volume retrieval from stable ERS tandem InSAR observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-50

  Askne, Jan ^a,b   Santoro, Maurizio ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

European remote sensing satellite 1 and 2 (ERS) 1 2; Forest stem volume, interferometry; Multitemporal; Retrieval accuracy; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE 1 AND 2 (ERS)-1/2; FOREST STEM VOLUME, INTERFEROMETRY; MULTITEMPORAL; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; IMAGES; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33846630436     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.883525     Document Type: Article

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