Forest modeling for height inversion using single-baseline InSAR/Pol-InSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1528-1539

  Garestier, Franck ^a   Toan, Thuy Le ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Forestry; Interferometry; Polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY MODEL; FOREST HEIGHT INVERSION; FOREST MODELING; FOREST MODELS; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; NATURAL STRUCTURES; ORIENTED PARTICLES; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; SINGLE-BASELINE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

BACKSCATTER; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA INVERSION; FORESTRY MODELING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HEIGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; STAND STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 77956064385     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2032538     Document Type: Article

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