Estimation of forest biomass from two-level model inversion of single-pass InSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5083-5099

  Soja, Maciej Jerzy ^a   Persson, Henrik J ^b   Ulander, Lars M H ^a,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass (AGB); canopy density; forest height; interferometric model; interferometric syntheticaperture radar (InSAR); TanDEM X (TDM); two level model (TLM)

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PINCH EFFECT; RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CANOPY DENSITY; FOREST HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRIC MODELS; TANDEM-X; TWO-LEVEL MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST CANOPY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; FOREST CANOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84962570864     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2417205     Document Type: Article

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