Capabilities of BIOMASS tomography for investigating tropical forests

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 965-975

  Ho Tong Minh, Dinh ^a   Tebaldini, Stefano ^b   Rocca, Fabio ^b   Le Toan, Thuy ^a   Villard, Ludovic ^a   Dubois Fernandez, Pascale C ^c  

^a CESBIO   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

30 m layer; 6 MHz bandwidth; BIOMASS mission; forest height; forest vertical structure; P band; spaceborne geometry simulation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography; tomographic phase; tropical forest biomass

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FORESTRY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

30-M LAYER; FOREST HEIGHT; P-BAND; SPACE-BORNE; TOMOGRAPHIC; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AZIMUTH; DATA SET; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; PHYTOMASS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPICAL FOREST;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; RADAR;

FRENCH GUIANA; PARACOU;

EID: 84906326417     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2331142     Document Type: Article

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