Leaf area index estimation of boreal and subarctic forests Using VV/HH ENVISAT/ASAR data of various swaths

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3899-3909

  Manninen, Terhikki ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^b   Rautiainen, Miina ^b   Voipio, Pekka ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry; microwave measurements; remote sensing; satellite applications; scattering

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ALTERNATING POLARIZATION; BACKSCATTERING RATIO; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PIXELS; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ESTIMATION;

BACKSCATTER; BOREAL FOREST; ENVISAT-1; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; POLARIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SUBARCTIC REGION;

FORESTRY; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL SCATTERING; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84880060882     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227327     Document Type: Article

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