Enhanced simulation of radar backscatter from forests using LiDAR and optical data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2736-2754

  Lucas, Richard M ^a   Lee, Alex C ^b   Williams, Mark L ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Forestry; Light detection and ranging (LiDAR); Radar; Scattering; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; FIELD-BASED MEASUREMENTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MICROWAVE PENETRATION; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FORESTRY; NASA; RADAR; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EUCALYPTUS POPULNEA;

EID: 35048857460     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.881802     Document Type: Article

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