An empirical assessment of temporal decorrelation using the uninhabited aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar over forested landscapes

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 975-986

  Simard, Marc ^a   Hensley, Scott ^a   Lavalle, Marco ^a   Dubayah, Ralph ^b   Pinto, Naiara ^b   Hofton, Michelle ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest; Height; Interferometry; PolinSAR; Radar; Repeat pass; Temporal decorrelation

Indexed keywords

FOREST; HEIGHT; POLINSAR; REPEAT-PASS; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

FORESTS; HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR;

EID: 84861312723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4040975     Document Type: Article

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