Airborne multi-temporal L-band polarimetric SAR data for biomass estimation in semi-arid forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 145, Issue , 2014, Pages 93-104

  Tanase, Mihai A ^a   Panciera, Rocco ^a   Lowell, Kim ^a   Tian, Siyuan ^a   Hacker, Jorg M ^b   Walker, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest biomass; Forest variability; L band radar; Multi temporal; Polarimetric decomposition; Random forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894376735     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.01.024     Document Type: Article

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