Pan-boreal mapping of forest growing stock volume using hyper-temporal Envisat ASAR ScanSAR backscatter data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7204-7207

  Santoro, Maurizio ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^b   Pathe, Carsten ^b   Schwilk, Julian ^b  

^a GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

boreal forest; Envisat ASAR; growing stock volume; multi temporal; ScanSAR

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; ENVISAT ASAR; GROWING STOCKS; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SCANSAR;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84873167000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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