C- and L-band SAR interoperability: Filling the gaps in continuous forest cover mapping in Tasmania

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-68

  Mitchell, Anthea L ^a   Tapley, Ian ^b   Milne, Anthony K ^a   Williams, Mark L ^c   Zhou, Zheng Shu ^d   Lehmann, Eric ^d   Caccetta, Peter ^d   Lowell, Kim ^e   Held, Alex ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CRC SI Perth   (Australia)

^c CRC SI Adelaide   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Forest cover mapping; RADARSAT 2; Regrowth; SAR interoperability

Indexed keywords

ALOS PALSAR; FOREST COVER; L-BAND SAR; RADARSAT-2; REGROWTH;

ALOS; BIOMASS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST COVER; GROWTH; HARVESTING; MAPPING METHOD; PALSAR; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGROWTH; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; TRADE-OFF;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84909635757     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.020     Document Type: Article

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