Phenomenology of P-band scattering from a tropical forest through three-dimensional SAR tomography

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 442-446

  Mariotti D'Alessandro, Mauro ^a   Tebaldini, Stefano ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forests; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomorgraphy

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FOREST HEIGHT; FORESTS; GROUND LAYER; MULTI-BASELINE; P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; PHYSICAL MODEL; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); SINGLE-LOOK COMPLEX DATUM; SUPERRESOLUTION TECHNIQUE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMORGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 84858076018     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2170658     Document Type: Article

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