Estimating potential woody biomass in communal savanna woodlands from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)

International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Paradzayi, Charles ^a,b   Annegarn, Harold J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Above Ground biomass; ALOSPALSAR; Backscatter intensity; Quadpol; Savanna woodlands; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866305582     PISSN: 19479654     EISSN: 19479662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jagr.2012010105     Document Type: Article

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