Quantataive analysis of relationship between alos palsar backscatter and forest stand volume

Journal of Marine Science and Technology (Taiwan)

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 624-628

  Kim, Choen ^a  

^a Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Forest biomass; Forest stand volume; Gamma nought 0; Sigma nought 0; Topographic effects; Topographic normalized backscattering coefficient; Tree volume

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST STAND; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TREE VOLUME;

BACKSCATTERING; DATA PROCESSING; FACINGS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTATION; FACINGS; FORESTS; RADAR; STAND VOLUME;

EID: 84872423013     PISSN: 10232796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6119/JMST-012-0402-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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