An error model for biomass estimates derived from polarimetric radar backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4065-4082

  Hensley, Scott ^a   Oveisgharan, Shadi ^a   Saatchi, Sassan ^a   Simard, Marc ^a   Ahmed, Razi ^a   Haddad, Ziad ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter error model; forest biomass; polarimetry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ABOVE-GROUND CARBONS; DERIVED PARAMETERS; EARTH OBSERVING MISSIONS; ERROR MODEL; FOREST BIOMASS; POLARIMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; POLARIMETRIC RADARS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BACKSCATTER; CARBON FLUX; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; PHYTOMASS; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIMETRY; RADAR;

EID: 84896389561     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2279400     Document Type: Article

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