Interferometric SAR coherence models for Characterization of hemiboreal forests using TanDEM-X dssata

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Olesk, Aire ^a,b   Praks, Jaan ^c   Antropov, Oleg ^c,d   Zalite, Karlis ^b,e   Arumäe, Tauri ^f   Voormansik, Kaupo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Coherence; Forest height; InSAR; LiDAR; Radar interferometry; Semi empirical models; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TanDEM X; Vegetation mapping; X band

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; MAPPING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; VEGETATION;

FOREST HEIGHT; INSAR; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEMIEMPIRICAL MODELS; TANDEM-X; VEGETATION MAPPING; X BANDS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85018744989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090700     Document Type: Article

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