Forest biomass estimation using texture measurements of high-resolution dual-polarization C-band SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3371-3384

  Sarker, Md Latifur Rahman ^a,b   Nichol, Janet ^c   Iz, Huseyin Baki ^c   Ahmad, Baharin Bin ^a   Rahman, Alias Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carbon storage capacity; forest biomass; RADARSAT 2; texture measurement; texture ratio

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; FOREST BIOMASS; POLARIZATION RATIOS; RADARSAT-2; STEPWISE MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SUBTROPICAL FORESTS; TEXTURE MEASUREMENT;

BIOMASS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; POLARIZATION; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST COVER; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PARAMETERIZATION; POLARIZATION; RADARSAT; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEXTURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTS; POLARIZATION; PROGRAMING LANGUAGES; SATELLITES; SENSORS; TEXTURE;

EID: 84878125503     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2219872     Document Type: Article

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