Forest biomass estimation at high spatial resolution: Radar versus lidar sensors

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 711-715

  Tanase, Mihai A ^a   Panciera, Rocco ^a   Lowell, Kim ^a   Aponte, Cristina ^b   Hacker, Jorg M ^c   Walker, Jeffrey P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass; L band radar; Small footprint lidar

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ERRORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LINEAR REGRESSION; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; L BAND RADARS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; SMALL-FOOTPRINT LIDARS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84882446665     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2276947     Document Type: Article

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