TanDEM-X data for aboveground biomass retrieval in a tropical peat swamp forest

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 158, Issue , 2015, Pages 255-266

  Schlund, Michael ^a,b   von Poncet, Felicitas ^a   Kuntz, Steffen ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^b   Hoekman, Dirk H ^c  

^a AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass; Interferometric coherence; REDD+; TanDEM X; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DEFORESTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; PEAT; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TROPICS; WETLANDS;

ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY HEIGHT MODELS; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; RADAR REMOTE SENSING; REDD; SAR(SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR); TANDEM-X; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON SINK; FOREST CANOPY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; PEATLAND; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWAMP FOREST; TANDEM-X; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 84951161879     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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