Evaluation of the interaction between SAR L-band signal and structural parameters of forest cover

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1607-1610

  Da Silva Narvaes, Igor ^a   Da Silva, Arnaldo De Queiroz ^a   Dos Santos, João Roberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Forest inventory; Monitoring; Remote sensing; SAR; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL VARIABLES; FOREST INVENTORY; VOLUMETRIC SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

DATA PROCESSING; FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 82355181399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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