Measurements of forest biomass change using P-band synthetic aperture radar backscatter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6047-6061

  Sandberg, Gustaf ^a,b   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,c   Wallerman, Jorgen ^d   Fransson, Johan E S ^d  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomass; Forestry; P band; Radar; UHF

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EQUIVALENT NUMBER OF LOOKS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LASER SCANNING DATA; P-BAND; P-BAND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; UHF;

BIOMASS;

BACKSCATTER; BIOMASS; CLEARCUTTING; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THINNING;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84901854464     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2294684     Document Type: Article

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