On the estimation of forest vertical structure from multibaseline polarimetric SAR data

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3443-3446

  Pardini, M ^a   Torano Caicoya, A ^a   Kugler, F ^a   Lee, S K ^a   Hajnsek, I ^a,b   Papathanassiou, K ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

forest structure; parameter inversion; polarimetry; spectral estimation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CARBON BUDGETS; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST STRUCTURE; KEY VARIABLES; MULTI-BASELINE; PARAMETER INVERSION; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL DEGRADATION; STRUCTURE INFORMATION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGY; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

REFORESTATION;

EID: 84873170982     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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