Aboveground biomass estimation of tropical forest from Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar data using modeling approach

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kumar, Shashi ^a   Pandey, Uttara ^a   Kushwaha, Satya P ^a   Chatterjee, Rajat S ^a   Bijker, Wietske ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aboveground biomass; backscatter; coherence; Envisat advanced synthetic aperture radar; interferometric synthetic aperture radar; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COHERENT LIGHT; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RADAR IMAGING; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC WATER CLOUD MODELS; ITERATIVE REGRESSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; TROPICAL FOREST; WEIGHTING COEFFICIENT;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84897813783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.6.063588     Document Type: Article

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