TanDEM-X Pol-InSAR performance for forest height estimation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6404-6422

  Kugler, Florian ^a   Schulze, Daniel ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^a,b   Pretzsch, Hans ^c   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest; forest height; forest parameter; interferometry; polarimetric synthetic aperture radar interferometry (Pol InSAR); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X; TerraSAR X; X band

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; SATELLITES; SPACE PLATFORMS;

FOREST; FOREST HEIGHT; FOREST PARAMETERS; POLINSAR; TANDEM-X; TERRASAR-X; X-BAND;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HEIGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; TANDEM-X;

FORESTRY; RADAR; SATELLITES;

EID: 84901848308     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2296533     Document Type: Article

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