Integration method to estimate above-ground biomass in arid prairie regions using active and passive remote sensing data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Xing, Minfeng ^a   He, Binbin ^a   Li, Xiaowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

above ground biomass; arid prairie regions; look up table; remote sensing; scattering model

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TABLE LOOKUP; VEGETATION;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; ACTIVE AND PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; ARID PRAIRIE REGIONS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTIONS; LOOK UP TABLE; SCATTERING MODEL; VEGETATION WATER CONTENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84897820240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083677     Document Type: Article

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