Potential of multiscale texture polarization ratio of C-band SAR for forest biomass estimation

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-83

  Sarker, Latifur Rahman ^a,b   Nichol, Janet ^c   Mubin, Ahmad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Carbon storage capacity and saturation level; Forest biomass; RADARSAT 2; Texture measurement

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING;

BIOMASS ESTIMATION; CARBON STORAGE; CARBON STORAGE CAPACITY AND SATURATION LEVEL; FOREST BIOMASS; POLARIZATION RATIOS; RADARSAT-2; SATURATION LEVELS; STORAGE CAPACITY; TEXTURE MEASUREMENT; TEXTURE PARAMETERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84984642340     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36379-5_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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