Estimating landscape-scale vegetation carbon stocks using airborne multi-frequency polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in the savannahs of north Australia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1141-1159

  Collins, J N ^a   Hutley, L B ^a   Williams, R J ^a,b   Boggs, G ^a   Bell, D ^c   Bartolo, R ^d  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c GecOz Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d Department of the Environment and Water Resources   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; DIGITAL STORAGE; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; BACKSCATTER INTENSITY; BIOMASS AND CARBON STORAGES; LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATION; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORIES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; BACKSCATTER; BASAL AREA; BELOWGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAVANNA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TREE; VEGETATION; WOODLAND;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EUCALYPTUS MINIATA;

EID: 67650254773     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802448935     Document Type: Article

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