Tropical-forest biomass estimation at X-band from the spaceborne tandem-X interferometer

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-243

  Treuhaft, Robert ^a   Goncalves, Fabio ^b   Dos Santos, Joao Roberto ^c   Keller, Michael ^d,e,f   Palace, Michael ^f   Madsen, Soren N ^a   Sullivan, Franklin ^f   Graca, Paulo M L A ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^e EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomass; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); lidar; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEFORESTATION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; BIOMASS MONITORING; COMPLEX CORRELATION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; TROPICAL FOREST;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84906919940     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2334140     Document Type: Article

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