Impact of topographic correction on estimation of aboveground boreal biomass using multi-temporal, L-band backscatter

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3262-3273

  Atwood, Donald K ^a   Andersen, Hans Erik ^b   Matthiss, Benjamin ^c   Holecz, Francesco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d SARMAP SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advanced land observing satellite phased array type L band synthetic aperture radar (ALOS PALSAR); Remote sensing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARRAY-TYPE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; TOPOGRAPHIC CORRECTION;

REMOTE SENSING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84907974439     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2289936     Document Type: Article

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