Ground-based array for tomographic imaging of the tropical forest in p-band

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4460-4472

  Dinh, Ho Tong Minh ^a   Tebaldini, Stefano ^a   Rocca, Fabio ^a   Koleck, Thierry ^b   Borderies, Pierre ^c   Albinet, Clément ^c   Villard, Ludovic ^b   Hamadi, Alia ^b   Le Toan, Thuy ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

Array design; BIOMASS mission; forest vertical structure; ground based radar; multistatic processing; P band forest tomography; TropiScat tomography mode; virtual array

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DESIGN; GROUND BASED RADAR; MULTI-STATIC; TROPISCAT TOMOGRAPHY MODE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VIRTUAL ARRAY;

DESIGN; FORESTRY; MULTISTATIC RADARS; POLARIZATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; TOMOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

ANTENNAS;

ARRAY; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGING METHOD; POLARIZATION; STAND STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION COVER;

DESIGN; FORESTRY; PLANTS; POLARIZATION; REFLECTION;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 84881084135     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246795     Document Type: Article

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