Airborne synthetic aperture radar for estimating above-ground woody biomass in tropical savanna woodland: A case study in Belize

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3578-3581

  Viergever, Karin M ^a   Woodhouse, Iain H ^a   Stuart, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AIRSAR, intermap technologies; Biomass estimation, tree height, tropical savanna woodland; Heterogeneous, digital surface model (DSM)

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; WOOD;

DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS (DSM); INTERMAP TECHNOLOGIES; WOODLANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS; PLANTS; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 34948827038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.921     Document Type: Conference Paper

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