Assessing relationships between Radarsat-2 C-band and structural parameters of a degraded mangrove forest

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 7002-7019

  Kovacs, John M ^a   Jiao, Xianfeng ^a   Flores de Santiago, Francisco ^b   Zhang, Chunhua ^c   Flores Verdugo, Francisco ^d  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAMETER-AT-BREAST HEIGHTS; GREY-LEVEL CO-OCCURRENCE MATRIXES; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; POLARIMETRIC PARAMETERS; POLARIZATION RATIOS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUM AND DIFFERENCE HISTOGRAMS;

FORESTRY;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; HISTOGRAM; LEAF AREA INDEX; MANGROVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RADARSAT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; STEM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ENTROPY; FORESTRY; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AVICENNIA GERMINANS; RHIZOPHORACEAE;

EID: 84881639455     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2013.813090     Document Type: Article

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