Investigating the impact of freezing on the ALOS PALSAR InSAR phase over Siberian forests

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 900-909

  Thiel, Christian ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; AVERAGE HEIGHT; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST INVENTORY DATA; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; L-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SIBERIAN FOREST;

FREEZING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADAR IMAGING;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; DENSITY; FREEZING; PALSAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIMULATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FORESTRY; FREEZING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADAR; SATELLITES;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84880430328     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2013.810350     Document Type: Article

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