Phenomenology of ground scattering in a tropical forest through polarimetric synthetic aperture radar tomography

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4430-4437

  D'Alessandro, Mauro Mariotti ^a   Tebaldini, Stefano ^a   Rocca, Fabio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomass; digital signal processing; forest; longer wavelength radar; Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar; SAR tomography

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC PARAMETER; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; FOREST; P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SAR TOMOGRAPHY (SARTOM); SINGLE LOOK COMPLEX SAR IMAGES; TRUNK-GROUND SCATTERING;

BIOMASS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FORESTRY; POLARIMETERS; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

BIOMASS; FORESTS; FRENCH GUIANA; OPTICAL SCATTERING; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 84881102657     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2246573     Document Type: Article

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