LIDAR-aided SAR interferometry studies in boreal forest: Scattering phase center and extinction coefficient at X-and L-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 10 PART1, 2012, Pages 3831-3843

  Praks, Jaan ^a   Antropov, Oleg ^b   Hallikainen, Martti T ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; phase center; polarimetric interferometry; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tree height

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY DATA; BOREAL FORESTS; CANOPY HEIGHTS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; DLR E-SAR; ELEVATION MODELS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST PARAMETERS; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; PHASE CENTER; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SAR TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING PHASE CENTER; SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION; SOUTHERN FINLAND; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; TERRAIN ELEVATION; TERRAIN MODEL; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TREE HEIGHT;

INTERFEROMETRY; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; EXTINCTION; FOREST INVENTORY; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; INVENTORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; POLARIMETRY; RADAR;

EID: 84867047644     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2185803     Document Type: Article

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