Multibaseline polarimetric SAR tomography of a boreal forest at P- and L-Bands

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 232-246

  Tebaldini, Stefano ^a   Rocca, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forestry; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC SYNTHESIS; BOREAL FORESTS; DECOMPOSITION PROBLEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FORESTED AREA; MULTI-BASELINE; POLARIMETRIC ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRIC SAR; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; POLINSAR; RIVER CATCHMENT; SAR SIGNALS; SINGLE-BASELINE; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

CATCHMENTS; FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTER; BOREAL FOREST; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WAVELENGTH;

FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; PLANTS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84855472041     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2159614     Document Type: Article

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