TropiSCAT: A ground based polarimetric scatterometer experiment in tropical forests

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1060-1066

  Albinet, C ^a   Borderies, P ^a   Koleck, T ^b,c   Rocca, F ^d   Tebaldini, S ^d   Villard, L ^b   Le Toan, T ^b   Hamadi, A ^b   Ho Tong Minh, D ^d  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; forest electromagnetic scattering; forest height estimation; PolInSAR; radar; radar polarimetry; remote sensing; SAR imaging; SAR tomography; temporal coherence; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FOREST HEIGHT; POLINSAR; RADAR POLARIMETRY; SAR IMAGING; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

MEASUREMENTS;

BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGING METHOD; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RAINFOREST; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST; WAVE SCATTERING;

BALLOONS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; FRENCH GUIANA; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 84863512190     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2201917     Document Type: Article

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