Analysis of forest backscattering characteristics based on polarization coherence tomography

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1 SUPPL., 2010, Pages 166-175

  Luo, HuanMin ^a   Li, XiaoWen ^a,b   Chen, ErXue ^c   Cheng, Jian ^a   Cao, ChunXiang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Backscattering characteristic; PCT; POLInSAR; Vertical structure function

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COHERENT SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETRY; NUMERICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; SURFACE SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

BACKSCATTERING INTENSITY; ESTIMATION AND DETECTION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 78650905755     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-010-3242-y     Document Type: Article

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