Tropical forest biomass recovery using GeoSAR observations

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Williams, M L ^a   Milne, T ^b   Tapley, I ^c   Reis, J J ^a   Sanford, M ^a   Kofman, B ^a   Hensley, S ^d  

^a Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Horizon Geoscience Consulting   (Australia)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon; Forest; Interferometry; Low frequency; SAR; Tropical

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; CARBON MARKETS; CARBON STOCKS; CLOUD COVER; CREDIT ALLOCATIONS; CROSS SECTION; DUAL-BAND; FOREST CLASSIFICATION; GROUND CONDITIONS; GROUND VEGETATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INSAR DATA; KEY ISSUES; LOW FREQUENCY; POLINSAR; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SAR DATA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRAIN SLOPE; TROPICAL FOREST; WIDE AREA;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS;

BIOMASS;

EID: 77951268986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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