Forest biomass mapping from lidar and radar synergies

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2906-2916

  Sun, Guoqing ^a   Ranson, K Jon ^b   Guo, Z ^c   Zhang, Z ^d   Montesano, P ^e   Kimes, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

DESDynI mission; Forest biomass; InSAR; Lidar waveform; LVIS; PALSAR; SRTM

Indexed keywords

DESDYNI MISSION; FOREST BIOMASS; INSAR; LVIS; PALSAR; SRTM;

FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CANOPY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIDAR; MAPPING METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLUME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

BIOMASS; DEFORMATION; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MAPPING; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; USA;

HOWLAND; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052611372     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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