The tropiSAR airborne campaign in French Guiana: Objectives, description, and observed temporal behavior of the backscatter signal

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3228-3241

  Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^a   Le Toan, Thuy ^b   Daniel, Sandrine ^g   Oriot, Hélène ^a   Chave, Jerôme ^c   Blanc, Lilian ^d   Villard, Ludovic ^b   Davidson, Malcolm W J ^e   Petit, Michel ^f  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique   (France)

^d CIRAD   (France)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Forestry; interferometry; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE RADAR SYSTEMS; BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CROSS-POLARIZED; DATA COLLECTION STRATEGIES; DATA PRODUCTS; DATA SETS; DATABASE ANALYSIS; EARTH EXPLORER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FRENCH GUIANA; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MISSION CONCEPTS; PHASE 0; PHASE A; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SATELLITE CONFIGURATION; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEST DATA; TOMOGRAPHIC; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BACKSCATTERING;

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MOISTURE; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; SOIL;

FRENCH GUIANA;

EID: 84864290531     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2180728     Document Type: Article

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