Estimation of pine forest height and underlying DEM using multi-baseline P-band PolInSAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Fu, Haiqiang ^a   Wang, Changcheng ^a   Zhu, Jianjun ^a   Xie, Qinghua ^a   Zhang, Bing ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complex least squares; Digital terrain model; Forest vertical structure; P band polarimetric interferometric radar (PolInSAR)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIMETERS; RADAR; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; INTERFEROMETRIC COHERENCE; INTERFEROMETRIC RADARS; LEAST SQUARE; LEAST SQUARES ADJUSTMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHOD; RANDOM VOLUME OVER GROUNDS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 85017608074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8100820     Document Type: Article

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