Biomass of dense forests related to L-band SAR backscatter?

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1037-1040

  Mermoz, S ^a   Rejou Mechain, M ^b   Villard, L ^a   Le Toan, T ^a   Rossi, V ^c,d   Gourlet Fleury, S ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

ALOS PALSAR; Carbon mapping; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; FORESTRY; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALOS PALSAR; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SAR BACKSCATTER; SATURATION POINT; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84911427840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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