Biomass estimation in a boreal forest from TanDEM-X data, lidar DTM, and the interferometric water cloud model

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 196, Issue , 2017, Pages 265-278

  Askne, Jan I H ^a   Soja, Maciej J ^a   Ulander, Lars M H ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ALS; Biomass; Boreal forest; Forest height; InSAR; TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BIOMASS; CLOUD COMPUTING; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TABLE LOOKUP;

ALLOMETRIC EQUATIONS; BOREAL FORESTS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; FOREST HEIGHT; INSAR; INTERFEROMETRIC WATER CLOUD MODELS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TANDEM-X;

FORESTRY;

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; INTERFEROMETRY; LIDAR; STAND STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TANDEM-X;

SWEDEN;

EID: 85019569286     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.05.010     Document Type: Article

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