The influence of DEM quality on mapping accuracy of coniferous- and deciduous-dominated forest using TerraSAR-X images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 661-681

  Ortiz, Sonia M ^a   Breidenbach, Johannes ^b   Knuth, Ralf ^c   Kändler, Gerald ^a  

^a Forest Research Institute of Baden Württemberg   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

accuracy; Classification; DEM; Forest inventory; Orthorectification; SAR; TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; MAPPING; RADAR; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR;

ACCURACY; FOREST INVENTORY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SPOTLIGHTS; ORTHO-RECTIFICATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; TERRASAR-X;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 84983086122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4030661     Document Type: Article

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