The BIOMASS mission retrieval algorithms: Results from recent campaigns

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5546-5549

  Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Ulander, Lars ^b   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^c   Rocca, Fabio ^d   Quegan, Shaun ^e   Davidson, Malcolm ^f   Scipal, Klaus ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BIOMASS mission; P band SAR; Pol InSAR; polarimetry; retrieval algorithms; tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS MEASUREMENTS; BIOMASS RETRIEVAL; BOREAL FORESTS; CARBON FLUXES; COMPLETE SETS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DATA SETS; FOREST BIOMASS; IN-SITU DATA; P-BAND SAR; POLINSAR; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SAR DATA; SAR TECHNIQUES;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOLOGY; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMASS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84873165695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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