Estimation of forest height and canopy density from a single InSAR correlation coefficient

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 646-650

  Soja, Maciej Jerzy ^a   Persson, Henrik ^c   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Canopy density; Forest height; Interferometric model; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X; Two level model (TLM)

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PINCH EFFECT; VEGETATION;

CANOPY DENSITY; FOREST HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRIC MODELS; TANDEM-X; TWO-LEVEL MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84907979901     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2354551     Document Type: Article

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