Vegetation profiles in tropical forests from multibaseline interferometric synthetic aperture radar, field, and lidar measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Treuhaft, R N ^a   Chapman, B D ^a   Dos Santos, J R ^b   Goncalves F G ^d   Dutra, L V ^b   Graca P M L A ^e   Drake, J B ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; STATISTICS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEGETATION;

C-BANDS; COSTA RICA; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; INDUCING FIELDS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; LEAF AREA; LIDAR DATA; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; LIDAR PROFILES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MULTI-BASELINE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION DENSITY; VEGETATION DISTRIBUTION;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; CALIBRATION; CARBON CYCLE; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; FIELD METHOD; LEAF AREA; LIDAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION INDEX;

COSTA RICA; LA SELVA BIOLOGICAL STATION; LIMON;

EID: 77954338517     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011674     Document Type: Article

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