Airborne X-HH incidence angle impact on canopy height retreival: Implications for spaceborne X-HH Tandem-X global canopy height model

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-96

  Tighe, L Lorraine ^a   King, Doug ^b   Balzter, Heiko ^c   Bannari, Abderrazak ^d   McNairn, Heather ^e  

^a Intermap Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy Height; DEM; DSM; DTM; InSAR; X band

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CANOPY HEIGHTS; DEM; DSM; DTM; INSAR; X BANDS;

VEGETATION;

FOREST CANOPY; HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84924352693     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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