Large-Scale Biomass Classification in Boreal Forests with TanDEM-X Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5935-5951

  Torano Caicoya, Astor ^a   Kugler, Florian ^a   Hajnsek, Irena ^b   Papathanassiou, Konstantinos P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass; bistatic; boreal forest; forest height; forest structure; land cover; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; FOREST BIOMASS; HEIGHT ESTIMATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURES; WINTER CONDITIONS;

FORESTRY;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; CLASSIFICATION; HEIGHT; INTERFEROMETRY; LAND COVER; SATELLITE DATA; STAND STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84975780769     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2575542     Document Type: Article

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