Pine forest height inversion using single-pass X-band PolInSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-68

  Garestier, Franck ^b   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a,b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos Panagiotis ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b ONERA   (France)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest; Interferometry; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (PoIInSAR); Polarimetry; X band

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FOREST DENSITY; HEIGHT INVERSION; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; X BAND;

FORESTRY;

FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 37249030972     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.907602     Document Type: Article

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