Estimation of forest structure, ground, and canopy layer characteristics from multibaseline polarimetric interferometric SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1086-1104

  Neumann, Maxim ^a   Ferro Famil, Laurent ^a   Reigber, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Polarimetric decomposition; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry; Temporal decorrelation

Indexed keywords

CANOPY LAYER; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL EXTINCTION; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST PARAMETERS; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST VEGETATION; FULL MODEL; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; GROUND LEVEL; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; L-BAND SAR; MULTI-BASELINE; PARAMETER INVERSION; PARTICLE SCATTERING; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SCATTERING; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLINSAR; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION; TEST SITE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VOLUMETRIC MEDIA; WAVE ATTENUATION;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; SCATTERING; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ANISOTROPY; CORRELATION; FOREST CANOPY; GROUND COVER; INTERFEROMETER; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE ATTENUATION;

DECAY; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; PLANTS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 78649528730     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2031101     Document Type: Article

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