The science and measurement concepts underlying the BIOMASS mission

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 5542-5545

  Quegan, Shaun ^a   Chave, Jerome ^b   Dall, Jorgen ^c   Le Toan, Thuy ^b   Papathanassiou, Kostas ^d   Rocca, Fabio ^e   Saatchi, Sassan ^f   Scipal, Klaus ^g   Shugart, Hank ^h   Ulander, Lars ⁱ   Williams, Mathew ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

ⁱ SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Bayesian methods; biomass; Carbon cycle; forest height; polarimetric interferometry; REDD

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN METHODS; CARBON CYCLES; FOREST HEIGHT; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; REDD;

ARID REGIONS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CARBON; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOLOGY; POLARIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CARBON; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84873209731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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