Vegetation height estimation from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and National Elevation Datasets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 339-358

  Kellndorfer, Josef ^a   Walker, Wayne ^a   Pierce, Leland ^a   Dobson, Craig ^a   Fites, Jo Ann ^b   Hunsaker, Carolyn ^b   Vona, John ^c   Clutter, Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Plum Creek Timber Company   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon; InSAR; NED; Noise reduction; SRTM; Vegetation canopy height

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); VEGETATION HEIGHT ESTIMATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; VEGETATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION COVER;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

EID: 5044239569     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.07.017     Document Type: Article

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