A Lidar-Radar Framework to Assess the Impact of Vertical Forest Structure on Interferometric Coherence

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 5830-5841

  Brolly, Matthew ^a   Simard, Marc ^b   Tang, Hao ^c   Dubayah, Ralph O ^c   Fisk, Justin P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Applied Geosolutions   (United States)

Author keywords

EM extinction; forest; interferometric coherence; lidar; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); vegetation; vertical structure

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; RADAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

FOREST; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC DATA; LASER VEGETATION IMAGING SENSORS; POLARIMETRIC INTERFEROMETRY; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLE; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WILDLIFE RESERVES;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; LIDAR; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 85006136410     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2527360     Document Type: Article

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