Forest aboveground biomass estimation using polarization coherence tomography and PolSAR segmentation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 530-550

  Li, Wenmei ^a,b   Chen, Erxue ^a   Li, Zengyuan ^a   Ke, Yinghai ^c   Zhan, Wenfeng ^d  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; POLARIMETERS; POLARIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENCE OPTIMIZATION; COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-VALIDATION METHODS; DOUBLE-BOUNCE SCATTERINGS; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; POLARIMETRIC SAR INTERFEROMETRY; POLARIMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; PIXEL; POLARIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEGMENTATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTS; OPTIMIZATION; POLARIMETRY; SATELLITES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84961288785     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2014.999383     Document Type: Article

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