Dual polarised Entropy/alpha decomposition and coherence optimisation for improved forest height mapping

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3951-3954

  Zhou, Zheng Shu ^a   Caccetta, Peter ^a   Lehmann, Eric ^a   Held, Alex ^a   McNeill, Stephen ^b   Mitchell, Anthea ^c   Milne, Anthony ^c   Tapley, Ian ^c   Lowell, Kim ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

coherence optimisation; dual polarised Entropy alpha decomposition; multiple scattering mechanisms (MSM); Radar polarimetry

Indexed keywords

DUAL POLARISED ENTROPY/ALPHA DECOMPOSITION; FOREST CANOPIES; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST MAPPING; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; IN-SITU; LIDAR DATA; MULTIPLE-SCATTERING MECHANISM; OPTIMISATIONS; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 80955168729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2011.6050096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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