Estimation of Boreal Forest Properties from TanDEM-X Data Using Inversion of the Interferometric Water Cloud Model

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 997-1001

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

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Above ground biomass (AGB); boreal forest; interferometric model inversion; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR); TanDEM X

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLOUD COMPUTING; FORESTRY; INTERFEROMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SNOW;

BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; INTERFEROMETRIC WATER CLOUD MODELS; NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES OPTIMIZATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SNOW-COVERED FORESTS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85020120574     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2017.2691355     Document Type: Article

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