The ambiguity in forest profiles and extinction estimated from multibaseline interferometric SAR;A ambigüidade em perfis da floresta e extinção estimada por interferometria SAR através de múltiplas linhas de base

Boletim de Ciencias Geodesicas

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Treuhaft, Robert N ^a   Chapman, Bruce D ^a   dos Santos, JoÃo Roberto ^b   Gonçalves, Fabio G ^c   Dutra, Luciano V ^b   Graça, Paulo Maurício L A ^d   Drake, Jason B ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^e USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction Coefficient; Forest; InSAR; Interferometry; Remote Sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT; FOREST COVER; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

EID: 70350068704     PISSN: 14134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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