Vertical structure of p-band temporal Decorrelation at the Paracou forest: Results from Tropiscat

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1438-1442

  Ho Tong Minh, Dinh ^a   Tebaldini, Stefano ^b   Rocca, Fabio ^b   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Borderies, Pierre ^c   Koleck, Thierry ^d   Albinet, Clement ^a   Hamadi, Alia ^c   Villard, Ludovic ^a  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ONERA   (France)

^d CNES   (France)

Author keywords

Biomass Monitoring Mission for Carbon Assessment (BIOMASS); coherence matrix; forest vertical structure; P band tomography; temporal decorrelation; TropiScat

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS MONITORING; COHERENCE MATRIX; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION; TROPISCAT; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84897023812     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2013.2295165     Document Type: Article

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