Analysis of PolInSAR precision for forest and ground parameters estimation in tropical context

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7585-7588

  Arnaubec, Aurelien ^a,b   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; ESTIMATION PERFORMANCE; GROUND PARAMETERS; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; LIDAR DATA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD APPROACHES; PHASE CENTER; POLINSAR; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; RMS ERRORS; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SINGLE-BASELINE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873149204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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