Assessment of forest biomass retrieval from compact-pol SAR data

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 452-460

  Truong Loi M L ^a,b,c   Dubois Fernandez, P ^a   Pottier, E ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b IETR   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE SAR; ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; BIOMASS LEVELS; BIOMASS RETRIEVAL; CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; COMPLEX VECTORS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-POLARIZED; DATA SETS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FOREST BIOMASS; INDEPENDENT PARAMETERS; LOW FREQUENCY; MARITIME PINES; MODE OF OPERATIONS; MONOSTATIC; P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC DATA; REGRESSION CURVE; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SAR DATA; SITE-SPECIFIC; SPACE-BORNE SAR; TEST STANDS;

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CORRELATION; FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PINUS; PLANTATIONS; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84867514577     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m12-037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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