Estimation of above ground biomass for central Indian deciduous forests using ALOS PALSAR L-band data

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 31-39

  Thumaty, Kiran Chand ^a   Fararoda, Rakesh ^a   Middinti, Suresh ^a   Gopalakrishnan, Rajashekar ^a   Jha, C S ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; ALOS PALSAR; Synthetic aperture radar; Tropical deciduous forests

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALOS; DATA PROCESSING; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EQUATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; PALSAR; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH;

EID: 84937915255     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-015-0462-4     Document Type: Article

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