Comparison of L- and P-band biomass retrievals based on backscatter from the BioSAR campaign

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Sandberg, Gustaf ^a   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,b   Fransson, Johan E S ^c   Holmgren, Johan ^c   Le Toan, Thuy ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biospère   (France)

Author keywords

Forest biomass; Polarimetry; SAR backscatter

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BIOMASS RETRIEVAL; BOREAL FORESTS; FOREST BIOMASS; SAR BACKSCATTER;

BACKSCATTERING; ELLIPSOMETRY; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS;

EID: 77951287841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5417345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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