Toward structural assessment of semi-arid African savannahs and woodlands: The potential of multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 fine beam images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 215-231

  Mathieu, Renaud ^a   Naidoo, Laven ^a   Cho, Moses A ^a   Leblon, Brigitte ^b   Main, Russell ^a   Wessels, Konrad ^a,c   Asner, Gregory P ^d   Buckley, Joseph ^e   Van Aardt, Jan ^f   Erasmus, Barend F N ^g   Smit, Izak P J ^h  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

LIDAR; Polarimetry; SAR; Savannah; Structure

Indexed keywords

PHENOLOGICAL STAGE; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; SAR; SAVANNAH; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; STANDARD ERROR OF PREDICTION; STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL METRICS;

BIODIVERSITY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); OPTICAL RADAR; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLARIMETERS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; LIDAR; PHENOLOGY; RADARSAT; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODLAND; WOODY PLANT;

KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84883036949     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.011     Document Type: Article

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