Multi-frequency and multi-polarized SAR response to thin vegetation and scattered trees

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 425-429

  Srivastava, Hari Shanker ^a   Patel, Parul ^a   Sharma, Yamini ^b   Navalgund, Ranganath R ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b FEROZE GANDHI COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cross polarization; Multi frequency SAR; Multi polarized SAR data; Scattered trees; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 71849115385     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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