On the estimation of boreal forest biomass from TanDEM-X data without training samples

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 771-775

  Askne, Jan I H ^a   Santoro, Maurizio ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biomass; forestry; interferometry; model; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FORESTS; TANDEM-X; TRAINING SAMPLE;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR;

EID: 84910038278     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2361393     Document Type: Article

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