Biomass estimation of forest and savanna transition vegetation zone by JERS-1 and SIR-C backscatter data

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 33, Issue , 2000, Pages 377-381

  Dos Santos, João Roberto ^a   Keil, Manfred ^b   Araujo, Luciana Spinelli ^a   Pardi Lacruz, María Silvia ^a   Marie Krämer, Julia Charlotte ^c   Kandler, Otto ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b German Remote Sensing Center (DFD)   (Brazil)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Biomass; Inventory; Microwave data; Savanna; Tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

AMAZONIA; INVENTORY; MICROWAVE DATA; SAVANNA; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIOMASS;

EID: 42949129339     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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