Poyang Lake wetland vegetation biomass inversion using polarimetric RADARSAT-2 synthetic aperture radar data

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Shen, Guozhuang ^a   Liao, Jingjuan ^a   Guo, Huadong ^a   Liu, Ju ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Construction Information Center of Hebei Province ^*  (China)

Author keywords

back propagation artificial neural network; biomass; canopy backscatter model; polarimetric decomposition; synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; BACKSCATTERING; BIOMASS; CARBON; LAKES; NEURAL NETWORKS; POLARIMETERS; RADAR IMAGING; SURVEYS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; BACK PROPAGATION ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK (BPANN); BACKSCATTER MODEL; BIOMASS ESTIMATION; POLARIMETRIC DECOMPOSITION; POLARIMETRIC SAR DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84924308543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.9.096077     Document Type: Article

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