The effects of noise on model inversion for the retrieval of forest structure from SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7173-7176

  Clewley, D ^a,b   Lucas, R ^a   Moghaddam, M ^b   Bunting, P ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Estimation Algorithm; Forest Structure; Synthetic Aperture Radar

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FOREST STRUCTURE; MODEL INVERSION; PHYSICS-BASED MODELS; SAR DATA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873166521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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