Analyzing the uncertainty of biomass estimates from l-band radar backscatter over the harvard and howland forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3568-3586

  Ahmed, Razi ^a   Siqueira, Paul ^b   Hensley, Scott ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; errors; Harvard Forest; Howland Forest; Radar backscatter

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

HARVARD FORESTS; HOWLAND FOREST; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR BACKSCATTER; REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZATION; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BACKSCATTER; CARBON CYCLE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERFEROMETRY; PHYTOMASS; RADAR; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SCATTERING; RADAR;

HARVARD FOREST; HOWLAND FOREST; MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896390232     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2273738     Document Type: Article

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