Combining lidar and synthetic aperture radar data to estimate forest biomass: Status and prospects

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 252-270

  Kaasalainen, Sanna ^a   Holopainen, Markus ^b   Karjalainen, Mika ^a   Vastaranta, Mikko ^b   Kankare, Ville ^b   Karila, Kirsi ^a   Osmanoglu, Batuhan ^c  

^a FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Forest biomass; Lidar; Radar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DATA FUSION; FORESTRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; FOREST BIOMASS; FOREST REMOTE SENSING; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; SPACEBORNE RADAR; STATUS AND PROSPECT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BIOMASS; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84922475290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6010252     Document Type: Review

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