Forest biomass estimation from the fusion of C-band SAR and optical data using wavelet transform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8887, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sarker, Md Latifur Rahman ^a,b   Nichol, Janet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Forest biomass; Image fusion; Optical; SAR; Saturation; Wavelet

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING; FOREST BIOMASS; GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY; OPTICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SAR; WAVELET;

DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE FUSION; INFRARED DEVICES; POLARIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; HYDROLOGY; POLARIZATION; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84888313582     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2029043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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