Forest-height inversion using repeat-pass spaceborne polInSAR data

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1314-1324

  Li, Zhen ^a   Guo, Ming ^a,b   Wang, ZhongQiong ^c   Zhao, LiFang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BEIJING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF URANIUM GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

forest height inversion; improved TD RVoG model; repeat pass PolInSAR; temporal decorrelation model

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; RANDOM ERRORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ADVANCED LAND OBSERVING SATELLITES; FOREST-HEIGHT INVERSION; INVERSION ERRORS; INVERSION PROCEDURE; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLINSAR; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

ALOS; FOREST; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALSAR; SATELLITE DATA;

ERRORS; FORESTRY; RADAR;

EID: 84901218526     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-013-4669-3     Document Type: Article

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