Using InSAR coherence to map stand age in a boreal forest

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 42-56

  Pinto, Naiara ^a   Simard, Marc ^b   Dubayah, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; Coherence; Disturbance; Quebec; Regeneration; Repeat pass; Stand age; Succession; Synthetic aperture radar; Temporal decorrelation; UAVSAR

Indexed keywords

CANADA; DISTURBANCE; QUEBEC; REGENERATION; REPEAT PASS; STAND AGE; SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION; UAVSAR;

COHERENT LIGHT; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; NASA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

REFORESTATION;

EID: 84873197013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5010042     Document Type: Article

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