Temporal survey of polarimetric P-Band scattering of tropical forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4539-4547

  Hamadi, A ^a,b   Albinet, C ^b   Borderies, P ^a   Koleck, T ^a   Villard, L ^a   Ho Tong Minh, D ^a   Le Toan, T ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b CESBIO   (France)

Author keywords

Backscattering time series; ground based radar experiment; P Band radar; radar polarimetry; temporal coherence; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BACKSCATTERING; DROUGHT; EXPERIMENTS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES; TROPICS;

GROUND BASED RADAR; P-BAND RADAR; RADAR POLARIMETRY; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTRY;

ANTENNA; BACKSCATTER; DIURNAL VARIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; POLARIZATION; RADAR; RAINFALL; SCATTERING; SURVEY; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL FOREST;

DROUGHT; FORESTS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 84896315396     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282357     Document Type: Article

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